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• If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

  Eduard Suess

  Science, Space, Clouds

  "The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)" by Eduard Suess, Clarendon Press, (p. 1), 1904.

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• To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

  Frederick Delius

  Music, Color, Touched

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• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Nomenclature, Principles

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• My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

  Edward Carpenter

  Years, Ideas, Shapes

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Stars, Jobs, Real

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• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Creativity, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Writing, Character, Discovery

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Character, Writing, Night

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• It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence. . . . I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling.

  David Rabe

  Writing, Mean, Play

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• The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Song, Spring, Math

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

  Donna Leon

  Novel, Plans, Happens

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• I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

  Katherine Moennig

  Tattoo, East, Village

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• One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.

  Nicole Eggert

  Hair, Feet, Guy

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• Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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• Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Ignorance, Errors, Israel

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• I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

  Hope Edelman

  Family, Mom, Photography

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ice, Sky

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Latin, Real

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

  David Bronstein

  Mind, Battle, Chess

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• In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Writing, Ideas, Fiction

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• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Shadow

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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