Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective,… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq.… — Ken Lucas Copy Share Image
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you… — Michael Learned Copy Share Image
When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not… — Strabo Copy Share Image
I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
During shows and interviews, I want to tell people exactly how I feel and I thought that if I am honest and… — Seungri Copy Share Image
My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism don't work, but neither does straightforward capitalism. We've got to get a new way of thinking and working. We… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
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