A Quotes
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“An interpretation [of a formal system] will be meaningful to the extent that it accurately reflects some isomorphism to the real world.”
Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.”
“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.”
Source: Northanger abbey, and Persuasion
“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion
“An interview is either a lesson or a blessing. You either use it as practice or you get a great job.”
Source: The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!
“An interview is like a minefield.”
“An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.”
“An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.”
“An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.”
“An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.”
“An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.”
“An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.”
Source: THE
“An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”
“An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.”
“An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.”
“an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“An intrepid person does not fear failure; they boldly flirt with disaster.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.”
Source: Marriage 911
“An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.”
“An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.”
“An Introduction to Database Systems”
“An Introduction to Poetry Readings"
Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted
Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics
Welcome to a night of wine and words!
Who's that in the corner? What a beret! What panache!
He's erudite and horny and he's high on cheap grenache
Fruity and mellifluous, he thinks he is mischievous
He's just a prick and devious, you'd better watch your back
For the arts are very crafty, then the room turns blank and drafty
And there's agonizing boredom still to come
Direct from minds like hovels, poems twice the length of novels
You may never see your family alive again
God is dead and who can blame him? When there's nights like this to shame him
If I was him I'd rise and just strike back
But the evening's just begun, and there's two hours yet to come
So please, "Put your hands together for the first poet for this evening!”
“An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell”
“An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesn't interest her. But for her, the event does not promise meaningful interaction. In fact, she knows that the party will leave her feeling more alone and alienated.”
Source: Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
“An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.”
“An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.”
Source: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
“An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.”
Source: Night Watch
“An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.”
“An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.”
“An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?”
“An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.”
“An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.”
“An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.”
“An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.”
Source: The Door Into Summer
“An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.”
Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State
“An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.”
“An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.”
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
“An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.”
“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.”
“An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.”
Source: My Inventions
“An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.”