Diffuse Quotes

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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse… — K. Eric Drexler
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate. — Wayne Dyer
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you… — Colin Baker
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. — Al Stewart
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into… — Frederick Lenz
It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better,… — Frederick Lenz
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we… — Alexander Pope
Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the… — Joss Whedon
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the… — James Wolcott
. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction… — Arthur C. Clarke
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write Englishâ€•it is the modern way and… — Mark Twain
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated… — Michel Foucault
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,… — Isabel Allende
She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through… — Cassandra Clare
And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It always looks good.… — Veronica Roth
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring… — William Faulkner
Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional. — Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

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