Based Quote by Elif Batuman Download Open image “Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.” — Elif Batuman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Based Lists Realism Resources
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave. — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me what painting I identified with. I didn't identify with anyone in any paintings. I finally identified with a painting in the Picasso Museum. Titled Le Buffet de Vauvenargues, it showed a gigantic black sideboard [...] Svetlana said I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I ended up in graduate school because I already secretly sided with the academics. In any case, I stopped believing that "theory" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Teach me about some taxes. Why didn't nobody teach me about taxes on TV? Why don't nobody teach us about none of that man?… — Brandon McCartney Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
