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fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
language motivational obstacle oppose perseverance preserve sang soothing
Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language Thomas Jefferson
language learned
Sharon, ... has learned the language of the possible. Shlomo Avineri
language
Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. Mike Mansfield
language metaphor
Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter
language computer program
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do Dennis Ritchie
language drafting right-to-life
When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns. Bart Stupak
language currency shops
Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...
language mind shakespeare wonderful
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically. Orlando Bloom
language religious unites
show us that sport unites by overriding national, political, religious and language barriers. Jacques Rogge
invisible force conditioning
To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning. Deepak Chopra
invisible issues missed opportunity policy seem sprung
He's been invisible when important policy issues have sprung up. They just seem to have missed opportunity after opportunity. John Williamson
invisible-hand kingdoms economic
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. Adam Smith
invisible-hand people competition
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
invisible-hand done individual
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
invisible ninety percent
Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender E. L. Konigsburg
invisible-monsters just-love-me big-hair
Make me into anything, but just love me. Chuck Palahniuk
invisible lucky spend time trains travel
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me. Pico Iyer
invisible
It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much. Bjork