Abstracted Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,… — Francis Bacon
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. — Richard Kalvar
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted. — Thurston Moore
You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as… — Joy Williams
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the… — Francis Bacon
I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation,… — Tom Robbins
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it… — Matthew Barney
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… — Kenny Smith
All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing — Johann Gottfried Herder
Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange… — Robert Musil
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. — Kate Morton
You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call… — John Green
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate,… — John Milton
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. — Paulo Coelho
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the… — John Van Hamersveld

Who Wrote These Abstracted Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Abstracted Quotes as follows: