Constructed Quotes

277 quotes by 254 authors

I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both… — Richard Hamming
Good stories are constructed, not found, — Warren Spector
One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal… — Joseph LeConte
You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind.… — Deb Olin Unferth
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much… — William Ralph Inge
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a… — Alfred Hitchcock
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be… — Chris Ofili
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too… — Stellan Skarsgard
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things… — Jennifer Weiner
Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus… — Frederick Lenz
Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a… — Dave Barry
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated,… — John Harvey Kellogg
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it… — Billy Collins
That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to… — Stephen Cambone

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