Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Daylight...In my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephenie Crawford crossed the street to tell… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts —… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
