Mode Quotes

472 quotes by 383 authors

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism. — David Riesman
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while… — Elihu Root
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its… — Constance Rourke
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from… — Sextus Empiricus
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that… — Gus Van Sant
The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks… — Hayley Atwell
You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad… — Laz Alonso
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity. — H. P. Blavatsky
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by… — Lord Byron
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any… — Lord Byron
The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… — Edgar Allan Poe
Life is the mode of action of proteins. — Friedrich Engels
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. — Anthony Giddens
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also… — Anthony Giddens
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a… — Caroline Knapp
I'm not usually in a talkative mode. — Chris Cornell
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state… — Brian Aldiss
We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global… — Chris Hardwick

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