Sequence Quotes

238 quotes by 215 authors

However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind… — Philip Roth
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated… — Marjorie Garber
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am… — Sviatoslav Richter
Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a… — Rikki Ducornet
I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a… — Shawn Ashmore
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very… — Will Eisner
In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it — Rosie Perez
In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the… — Michael Denton
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on… — Per Petterson
Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence… — Gichin Funakoshi
What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come… — Tal Farlow
To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. — Minor White
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single,… — Minor White
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog… — George R. R. Martin
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never… — Peter Ackroyd
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. — Warren Buffett
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert

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