Constructing Quotes

88 quotes by 85 authors

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime,… — Grace Slick
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had… — Cormac McCarthy
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he… — Leo Tolstoy
Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and… — A. S. Byatt
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker
Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously,… — Ann Brashares
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men… — Audre Lorde
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the… — David Henrie
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with… — Janet Echelman
All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and… — Sebastian Faulks
The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money… — Noam Chomsky
The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and… — Ron Eglash
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes.… — Aristotle
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the… — Philippe Petit
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and… — Philippe Petit
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. — Charles Simic

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