Intricacy Quotes

• I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Self, Stories, Awareness

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• All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Political, Poetic, Economic

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.17, Vintage

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• Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

  Annie Dillard

  Perfection, Vision, Pressure

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.

  John Lighton Synge

  Life, Beautiful, Ocean

  John Lighton Synge (1957). “Kandelman's Krim: A Realistic Fantasy”

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• No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

  Pat Conroy

  Laughter, Fate, Law

  Pat Conroy (2012). “Beach Music”, p.115, Random House

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• Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

  Nikola Tesla

  Character, Past, Forever

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.21, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Life, Art, Order

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• Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Real, Reading

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

  Matthew Healy

  Done, Moments, Certain

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

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• The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Spiritual, Truth

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• She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Lying, Color

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• The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

  William P. Young

  Beautiful, Soul, Fragility

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• The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Doe, Spirituality

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Landscape, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.139, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.

  Gregory Galloway

  Moving, Simple, Talking

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.33, Penguin

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• The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Thrillers, Formal

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Mind, Privilege

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.197

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• ... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate.

  Mark Doty

  Here And There, Feels, Accurate

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• [Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wall, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: inters.org

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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Rude, Making Love, Criticism

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• Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  World, Ghastly, Mechanism

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2638, Book House

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• The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

  Umera Ahmed

  Journey, People, Giving

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• Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Other Worlds, Ideas, Vampire

  Source: collider.com

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• Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

  Tom Harrell

  Music, Listening, Trying

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