A Quotes
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“All feete tread not in one shoe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained.”
Source: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
“All Fergusson's verses, indeed all humanist verse, has within it an eligiac seam; always present beneath the surface is the assumption that the world is imperfect, that it has fallen from grace. As with the disintegrating Tory ideal in the country, there is in Fergusson's poetry an ideal, imagined city of the past, hopelessly toppling as the new Babylon lays down its foundations: city of chaos, dirt, noise, broken communication, luxury, disorder. In essence the poet follows in his representation the timeless humanist imperative, attempting 'to create order out of disorder, and to make sense of life'. Hallow-Fair and Leith Races to a degree make just such a clear demarcation between the two cities of past and present in their thesis - antithesis structures. The two cities embody two different Scottish cultures: Auld Reekie, the pastoral, civilised, humanist culture; and Edina, the Athens of the North, but more often, Babylon, the counter-pastoral, brutal, Whig culture. Hallow-Fair, Leith Races, The Election, The King's Birth-Day in Edinburgh, satirise the new Babylon; the poems of this group celebrate an older Scotland, and Auld Reekie, in the same eligiac vein as The Daft Days. Yet, as we have seen, the poet, at times, undermines too rigorous a humanist position: demarcations are not all that clear; ideals don't always elevate the human codition; the endless wheel of change and creativity, diversity and unrest, may be forging themselves into a new order.”
Source: Robert Fergusson and the Scots Humanist Compromise
“All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.”
“All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.”
“All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.”
“All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.”
“All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.”
“All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.”
“All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.”
“All fiction is better with explosions," said Jared. "Basic fact of life.”
Source: The Spring Before I Met You
“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.”
“All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.”
“All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.”
“All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.”
“All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.”
“All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?”
“All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps”
“All FILM directors are good actors, because you have to understand actors in order to program them.”
“All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.”
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.”
“All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in dreaming. We could dream slow motion before the moving camera was invented. In our dreams we could cut between parallel actions, we assembled montage shots long before some self-important Russian claimed to show us how. This is where film derives its particular power. It re-creates on screen what has been going on in our unconscious.”
Source: The New Confessions
“All films are born free and equal.”
“All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.”
“All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.”
“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.”
“All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.”
“All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.”
Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
“All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market”
“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”
Source: 1949-1959
“All finery is a sign of littleness.”
“All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.”
“All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.”
“All fire burns, little baby. You’ll learn.”
Source: Neverwhere
“All fires burn out at last.”
Source: The cross
“All fish are not caught with flies”
Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
“All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.”
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“All flags are my flags, for all nations are my nations.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.”
“All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.”
Source: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
“All flesh belongs the glorious Father.”
“All flesh belongs to the Father.”
“All flesh comes from one Father, the father of all the living.”
“All flesh doth frailty breed!”
Source: Poetical works
“All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
And we that worship him, ignoble graves.”
Source: The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative
“All flesh is not venison.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...”
Source: I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems
“All flesh share the same fate.”
“All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.”