Sequence Quotes

238 quotes by 215 authors

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau… — James Sallis
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in… — Neil Postman
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was… — Jonathan Stroud
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which… — Alexandre Dumas
If only,â€™ Shiroyama dreams, â€˜human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections.… — David Mitchell
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.… — Nicholas Sparks
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create… — Terry Pratchett
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially… — John Kennedy Toole
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering… — Bill Bryson
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as… — Meg Wolitzer
You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of… — Neil Gaiman
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on… — Ezra Pound
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of… — Thomas Berry
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to… — Lincoln Kirstein
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical]… — Clarence Darrow
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has… — Eric Topol

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