Prescriptive Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

• Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right — Aldous Huxley
• When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very… — Steven Pinker
• There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
• Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice.… — Emma Watson
• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films… — Mike Leigh
• In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
• I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not… — Paul Auster
• Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell… — Jonathan Sacks
• The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And… — Pamela Geller
• Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. — Ursula K. Le Guin
• I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters… — Russell Kirk
• One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at… — Steven Pinker
• Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter
• At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. — Edward Bond
• The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,… — Zadie Smith

Who Wrote These Prescriptive Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Prescriptive Quotes as follows:

• 2 Prescriptive Quotes by Steven Pinker
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Emma Watson
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Mike Leigh
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Joseph de Maistre
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Jonathan Sacks
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Pamela Geller
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Russell Kirk
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by John H. McWhorter
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Edward Bond
• 1 Prescriptive Quote by Zadie Smith