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“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.”

Writing Views Fiction Written Offers Innovation Crisis Science Fiction Constant Angle Scandal Obscurity

Author:John Clute

“In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.”

Way Ends Moments Stories Able Middle Kicks Theme Angle Defining Defining Moments

Author:Dan Jenkins

“The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.”

Moving Fall Sound Emotion Wonder Ears Thirds Wit Sensuality Witness Categories Composer Angle Primal Slapstick

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Firsts Mistake Vision Knowing Objects Sight Blind Squares Angle Hinder Blind Man

Book:The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

Source: The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

“I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.”

I Can Light Discovery Down And Swim Angle Upside Down

Book:At the Bottom of the River

Source: At the Bottom of the River

“... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.”

Ifs Humans Able Pain Certain Found Process Born Lines Human Beings Failing Eternal Relation Mathematics Symbols Angle Manipulate Geometry Human Relations

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.”

Children Philosophy Angle

Author:Anthony Lane

“I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.”

Thinking Mirrors Smoke Filmmaking Angle Smoke And Mirrors

Author:Charlize Theron

“It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.”

Tolerance Circles Unfair Angle

Book:The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli

Source: The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli

“Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.”

Knows Structure Aphorism Angle

Author:Mason Cooley

“I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.”

Should Two Thirds Surface Spheres Imaginary Angle Proposal Triangles

Author:Johann Heinrich Lambert

“Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.”

Men Sticks Angle Crooked Binding Bundles Abolitionist

Author:Jane Swisshelm

“Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?”

Feelings Design Angle Curves Arches Vertical

Author:Prince Charles

“Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.”

Form Force Passionate Abstract Construction Concrete Angle Clash

Author:Carlo Carra

“Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.”

Long Training Sight Angle Precision

Book:Flatland

Source: Flatland

“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.”

“It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.”

Two Lasts Sides Lines Middle Opposites Gravity Centre Angle Propositions Intersections Triangles

Book:The Works of Archimedes

Source: The Works of Archimedes

“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.”

“I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.”

Thinking World Looks War Philosophy Bigs Havens Particular Reader Concern Aspect Strive Arguing Debate Hopefully Accomplished Preaching Angle Governance Big Questions

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science.”

Different Young Felt Students Adults Appreciate Scientist Angle Different Angles Good Science Young Life

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I just thought that a naked pregnant woman checking herself out would be so funny. I actually wish there was more of it. An actually, it was my idea to put it in, because I just remember being pregnant and just marveling at the hugeness of my body, like looking in the mirror from all angles. But that's something you do privately.”

Ideas Body Would Be Remember Wish Mirrors Naked Pregnant Angle Pregnant Women Being Pregnant Looking In The Mirror Marveling

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Digital also had this evolution that came out of post-production. And George Lucas did it because he wanted to make a big movie with special effects. Sort of the opposite of what you'd think is an indie film. So it's coming from both these angles.”

Thinking Bigs Wanted Film Special Effects Evolution Opposites Productions Posts Digital Angle Special Effects Big Movie Indie Films Post Production

Author:Christopher Kenneally

“Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.”

World Way Writing Trying Looks Different Sometimes Needed Draws Cameras Photographer Photograph Come Up Different Ways Burned Angle Burned Out

Author:Barbara Abercrombie

“There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.”

People Writing Has Beens Said Certain Deals Cities Talking Land Weapons Shots Miles Bombs Aviation Target Annoying Continents Precise Angle Predictions Rockets Atomic Bomb

Author:Vannevar Bush

“I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.”

Knows Years Long Has Beens Culture Imagination Our Lives Subjects Emotional Intellectual Contemplating Angle Meaning Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.”

Heart Kind I Can Film Passion Acting Existence Fronts Figures Mines Dancing I've Learned Angle Heartbeat

Author:Columbus Short

“Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say.”

Thinking Want Looks Art Ends Guy Taken Comedy Angle Pretentious

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.”

Way Trying Looks Different Answers Conflict Angle Different Angles

Author:Joe Rogan

“Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.”

Trying Different Rhythm Shooting Swings Angle Tedious Different Angles

Author:Charlie Sheen

“I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.”

Ifs World Looks Moments Happens Eye Natural Photography Angle Small Things Linear Natural Things Small Moments More Than Meets The Eye

Author:Keith Carter

“I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.”

Littles Rooms Photography Leaving Narrative Angle Viewers Implied

Author:Keith Carter

“If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.”

People Ifs Feels Littles Different Eye Used Pieces Written Seeing Admire Admiration Angle Betrayed Civilians Different Angles

Author:Joan Didion

“If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.”

Ifs Knows Trying Long Turns Know How Baseball Cheeks Bats Angle Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Maya Angelou

“I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.”

“I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle and not try to be ghetto or anything. You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Hands Games Fun White Made It Rapper Angle Ghetto

Author:Simon Rex

“I don't regard that as a Guardian Angle. I really do think, in a sense, that we are our own Guardian Angles. But we don't listen to ourselves.”

Thinking Regard Angle Guardian

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].”

Needs Real Hands Light Fun Felt Creative Paper Computer Paint Drawing Pens Software Angle Intuitive Animation Props Artwork Paper And Pen

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.”

Thinking Art Self Sometimes Happens School Film Bits Taught Creatures Approach Filmmaker Unusual Angle Animation Art School Film School Self Taught

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.”

Knows Grows Stuff Know How Products Huge Angle Patents

Author:Mark Cuban

“People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.”

People Needs Writing Comedy Mystery Grateful Articles Angle Stand Up Comedy

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.”

Thinking Way Art Different Artist Opinion Extremes Angle Anarchist Different Angles

Author:Robert Zemeckis

“People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.”

People Want Needs Forget Angle Physicality

Author:Bjork

“I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Enough Play Whole Able Actors Stuff Focus Masters Wide If I Could Compelling Angle Simplify Coverage Tokens

Author:David Fincher

“Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.”

Looks Two Steps Photography Photographer Photograph Wide Angle Lenses Camera Lenses

Author:Ernst Haas

“There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming....All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.”

Earth Sun Finished Proof Ice Related Global Warming Cycles Minors Carbon Angle Melting Indication Orbit Arctic Carbon Dioxide Axes Tilt

Author:John Williams

“In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.”

Use Eye Action Emotion Directors Breaths Technique Capture Angle Sweeping Vistas

Author:Stephen Hunter

“Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.”

Knows Trying Looks Kind Said Two Different One Thing Approach Repeats Just One Typical Foxes Angle Berlin Different Angles Dostoyevsky Hedgehogs

Author:Colin Wilson

“I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.”

Thinking Different Angle Different Angles

Author:Chris Carter

“I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.”

People Looks Weight Mirrors Divorce Listeners Angle

Author:Ben Folds

“There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.”

Ideas Sometimes Film Language Position Cameras Ugly Angle Spectacular Unfamiliar

Author:Steve McQueen