Outlines Quotes
65 quotes by 63 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
— Anne McCaffrey
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of…
— John Cowper Powys
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Outlines Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 65 Outlines Quotes, led by these top contributors: