Instance Quotes

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Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name… — Bob Parsons
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. — Barbara Holland
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or… — Jimmy Connors
I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for… — William Saroyan
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed… — Jean Piaget
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. — Jean Piaget
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons… — Gregory Bateson
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. — Jerome Lawrence
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink)… — Alan Bennett
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes. — Keith Olbermann
We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told… — Charles Lindbergh
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle
If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably… — Thomas Perry
Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler… — Ron Rash
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just… — Devon Sawa
In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and… — Leonard Slatkin
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two… — Bryn Terfel
There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have… — Daley Thompson

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