Convey Quotes

320 Convey quotes by 287 unique authors

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would… — Horace
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how… — Virginia Woolf
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to… — Samuel Johnson
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an… — Herbert Hoover
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is… — Rita Dove
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer… — James Gleick
In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science. — Mary Roach
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is… — Charles Sturt
I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved,… — Steve Sabol
Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state… — Frederick Lenz
Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an… — Joy Williams
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I… — Gerhard Richter
All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some… — Samuel L. Jackson
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. — Antony Beevor

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