509 Structure Quotes for You to Enjoy

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you're not feeling very well, or as a child. Helen Oyeyemi

The appendages of the skin are the nails, the hairs, the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and their ducts. The nails and hairs are peculiar modifications of the epidermis, consisting essentially of the same cellular structure as that membrane. Henry Gray

Skin Consisting Structure Glands Nails Hairs Same Cellular Essentially Peculiar

Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine. Henry Petroski

People Car Think Drama Dramatic Machine Draw Find Structure More Crowds Tend True Failures Like Track Around Buildings Expect Than Same Any Just Automobile Crashes Which Interesting Races Much Racing Successes Bridges Why Spectacular

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. Herbert Read

Art Society Resolved Seem Structure Aristocratic Between Democratic Does Exists Contradiction Modern Modern Society Which Function Ever

I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies. Hiro Murai

Think Back Atlanta Classic Structure Between Genre Sitcom Movies Season

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. Howard Hodgkin

Art World School States Has-Been Kind Minute Structure New Been Art World York Modern Modern Art New York United United States Nearly Coherent

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment. Hu Jintao

Will State Channels Sectors Stay Structure Diversify More Facilitate Open Investment Firmly Policy Foreign Effectively Up Improve Committed Form China Use Actively Basic

Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. Ian Hacking

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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon. Ira Glass

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves. Ira Glass

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure. Irwin Rose

Journey Grateful Black Looking Looking Back Clever Gone Research Enough Back Eclectic Structure Open Well Box Although Am Still

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton

Today Art Freedom Age First Sense Other Our Characteristics Vanity Structure Poets Developing Between French Idiom Verbal Line Hand Efforts Any Form Rhythm Forms Choice Fundamental

Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different. James Frain

Time Character You Space Focus Pressure Characters Structure More Network Cable Development Along Go Time And Space Different Series Shows

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. James Thurber

Me Face Definite Paragraphs Structure Developed Sixty Sentence Hardening Staring

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera. Jamie Foxx

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you. Jane Goldman

You Writing Will Engineering Otherwise Run See Spirit Structure Takes Terms Pragmatic Afford Quite Where Screenplay Novel Away

Early on, I had to structure my ideas of success around things like, 'Can I go back and listen to the record months or years after I made it and still get some enjoyment out of it?' Or 'Have I said what I wanted to say on this album? Did it connect with people on a personal level, even if it's a small number of people?' Jason Isbell

Success People Made Back Months Say Out Record Some Structure Small Had Like Ideas Around Said Still Go Years Get Did Personal Listen Personal Level Wanted After Connect Even Level Things Enjoyment Early Album Number

I was in Las Vegas, and there was a exhibit of King Tut's tomb, and it was an audio tour. At the very end of that, I just thought it would be a really cool structure for a novel, but I just didn't have a story to go along with it. Jay Asher

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful. Jean-Claude Van Damme

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In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull. Jeanne Marie Laskas

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