I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment. — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy... — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
People were like, "Someone who made a song like this, there has to be more to them. I'm interested in hearing how… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do… — Mamie Van Doren Copy Share Image
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
