Outline Quotes

153 quotes by 138 authors

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that… — Sai Baba
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice… — Jacob Bronowski
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet… — Gwendolyn Brooks
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can… — Piers Anthony
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains… — Shirley Jackson
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim. — Dennis Miller
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old… — William Crawford Williamson
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good… — Helenio Herrera
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future… — Kevin Rudd
So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in… — Steve Tesich
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal… — George R. R. Martin
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives. — Josephine Hart
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at… — Elmore Leonard

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