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What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson
Time
People
Some People
Melancholy
Brooding
Some
Feel
Required
Grasp
Serenity
Interpret
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
David McCandless
Love
Sometimes
Situation
Busy
Stay
Instant
Overview
Current
Want
Information
Grasp
Second
Need
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
Debra Winger
Wisdom
Age
Care
Thought
Never Say Never
Our
Say
Object
About
Oneself
Faces
Never
Beyond
Also
Make
Makes
Lines
Comment
Denying
Politically
Cutting
Grasp
The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life.
Derek Bok
Life
Time
Problems
College
Single
Relate
Later
Adequate
Inquiry
Emerge
More
Vast
Vast Majority
Student
Students
Recur
Over
Majority
Does
Method
Than
May
Experiences
Capacity
Grasp
Even
It's unbelievable. I'm still trying to grasp the whole idea that I am an actually a Stanford Cardinal now. I'm actually representing an alumni that's network is around the world, and the people there are unbelievable.
Devon Cajuste
People
World
Unbelievable
Network
Idea
Around
Alumni
Am
Still
Trying
Representing
Grasp
Whole
Stanford
Now
Actually
Cardinal
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.
Diana Gabaldon
Good
People
Thought
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Write
Pieces
Fairly
Sort
Got
Glue
Common
Order
Them
Century
Grasp
Now
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
Dinaw Mengestu
Best
Reality
People
Inevitable
Sister
Tool
Marketing
Say
Those
Written
Generic
Between
Obviously
She
Well
How
Did
Die
Dies
Autobiography
Difference
Where
Fiction
Happens
Story
Use
Your
Show
Grasp
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
You
Age
Throw
Never
Firmly
Get
Snowball
Process
Urge
Aging
Grasp
It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy's autograph. I'd tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, 'People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.' But she couldn't really grasp it.
Dwayne Johnson
Time
People
Wife
Long
Long Time
Too
Took
Meet
Tell
Would
See
Excited
She
Him
Understand
Autograph
Want
Movies
Really
Grasp
Daddy
Why
Her
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
Edmund Husserl
Speak
Object
More
Generally
Experiencing
Processes
Lowest
Grasp
Original
Level
Cognitive
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper
Nature
Together
Will
Accidents
Think
Humility
Intimate
Moods
More
Attempt
Part
Study
Reactions
Renewed
Still
Surprise
Wonder
Again
Capable
Grasp
Basic
Sympathetic
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
Edwidge Danticat
Home
Family
Me
Complicated
Difficult
Back
Reach
Understand
Am
Still
Very
Trying
Happening
Grasp
Moments
Things
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
Ella Maillart
Possess
Able
Only
Grasp
It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?
Elvis Mitchell
King
Tough
Picture
Extra
Unlike
Evident
Ring
Excess
Allow
He
Over
Feels
Bow
Him
Return
Go
Jackson
Endings
Forgiven
Which
Grip
Grasp
Let Go
Why
Why Not
Last
A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.
Erik Larson
Reading
Spend
Books
Could
Writer
Terrain
Years
Historical
Just
Gain
Grasp
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
Evita Peron
Government
Me
You
Rights
Women
Joy
Victory
Nation
Before
Tremble
Our
Laurel
Civil
Civil Rights
Feel
Accepting
Am
Handed
Behalf
Hands
Just
Proclaiming
Us
Certain
Bill
Grants
Grasp
Receiving
If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you're right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.
Faith Salie
You
Back
Bathroom
Paper
Towel
Without
Exit
Handle
Hands
Where
Door
Your
Grasp
Using
Right
Right Back
Started
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess
Me
Age
Experience
Think
President
President Obama
Paper
Obama
Spirit
Guys
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Had
He
Indonesia
Over
Like
Know
Him
Were
America
Same
Same Age
Hard
Grasp
Route
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Science
About
Inventor
Could
Terrible
Read
Scientist
Scientists
Maths
Wanted
To Love
Used
Grasp
Lives
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
George Packer
Work
Internet
Increasingly
Invisible
Economy
Effects
Human
Social
Much
Grasp
Harder
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
Greg Kinnear
Time
Me
Peace
People
Think
Back
Collapse
City
Seeing
Something
Miss
Know
Look
Forced
Around
Childhood
Short
Short Time
Grasp
Many
Beirut
Fragility
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet
Truth
Time
Truth Is
Power
Beauty
Relative
Direct
Ratio
Individual
Like
Conception
Artist
Acquired
Who
Grasp
Expression
Lives
Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
Gwen Ifill
History
Disagree
Grasp
Need
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
Hanna Rosin
Time
Parents
Young
Took
Some
Had
Between
Remote
Obvious
How
Doing
iPad
Were
Hand
Mouse
Screen
Children
Young Children
Happening
Toddlers
Use
Grasp
Connection
Shown
Even
You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.
Hannah Teter
You
Yourself
See
Something
Until
Get
Really
Full
Grasp
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
Heywood Broun
Will
Enormous
Writer
He
Fails
Occasional
Understatement
Err
Effectiveness
Revolutionary
Grasp
Even
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