Instance Quotes - Page 39

• I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

  Mike Katz

  People, Peers, Want

  8 Copy quote

• In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

  Victor Wooten

  Needs, Music Is, Spoken Word

  61 Copy quote

• The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

  Ronnie James Dio

  Real, Stupidity, Greed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Aggravation, Murder

  56 Copy quote

• I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

  Roger Waters

  Song, Father, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

  Paul Ekman

  Hurt, Care, May

  Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen (2003). “Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Clues”, p.79, ISHK

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

  Richard V. Allen

  Would Be, Rewards, Firsts

  7 Copy quote

• I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Bells, Next

  7 Copy quote

• It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Heart, Ambition

  5 Copy quote

• I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.

  Dave Chappelle

  Stress, People, Guy

  "Dave Chappelle Comes Clean On 'Oprah'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. February 3, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  Lacey Chabert

  Dog, Flower, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

  John Hanning Speke

  Delight, Twins

  John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.19

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal.

  David Harvey

  Russia, Creating, Goal

  David Harvey (2007). “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”, p.27, OUP Oxford

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Action, Results, Stunning

  92 Copy quote

• A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

  Ernst Mach

  Space, Temperature, Source

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Time, Player, Law

  Chess Life, Volume 16-18, p. 113, 1961.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art, poetry, and music. As that kind of artist, I can do anything. I can say anything. It's about self-expression. It knows no package - there's no such thing. That's what being an artist is.

  Laura Nyro

  Art, Expression, Self

  13 Copy quote

• Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

  Gerry Mulligan

  Two, Twenties, Three

  7 Copy quote

• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

  30 Copy quote

• Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, People, Meals

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

  Anton Chekhov

  Destiny, People, Unhappy

  96 Copy quote

• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  Allen Tate

  Two, Quality, Three

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

  G. H. Hardy

  Past, Men, Fifty

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

  Michael Heizer

  Sculpture, Likes, Imagine

  10 Copy quote

• It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

  Henri de Regnier

  Love, Writing, Mistress

  7 Copy quote