Outlines Quotes

65 quotes by 63 authors

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to… — James Clerk Maxwell
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
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with… — Hans Selye
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,… — Irving Fisher
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity… — Dave Freudenthal
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom — Anne McCaffrey
"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?" — Barack Obama
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm… — Charlaine Harris
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets… — John Stuart Mill
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play… — Franz Kafka
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small… — James A. Michener
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all… — John G. Kemeny
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending. — David Bronstein
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by… — Dava Sobel
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. — Jim Bishop
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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