“A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.” BodyTypeBecomingCapableSkinsCellsMusclesNervesBlankStemStem Cell Author:Virginia Foxx
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.” PeopleFeelsMinutesTypeCapableAffairDetailsVanityDaily LifeInterferenceLives Of OthersBusybodies Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.” MenWayNeedsDifferentPlayFormSocialPovertyModernMaterialsTypeIndustryCapableScalesProductiveEcologyUnitsCognitionModern ScienceContainingLarge Scale Author:Ernest Gellner
“Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.” PeopleIfsHateUnderstandingNumbersBrainTypeFindingsCapableLogicEnglandHate YouLarge NumbersEliot Author:D. J. Taylor
“The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.” IfsFirstsHumansSelfUseBodyActorsViewsTypeActivityCapableResourcesDefenseLibertarianOwnersOwnershipScarceScarce ResourcesHomesteadingSelf Ownership Author:Stephan Kinsella
“Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.” ThinkingShouldBelieveHumansCountryMilitaryTypeConflictCapableResourcesDon't BelieveInternationalOur CountrySufficientContributionJapanOther CountriesHuman ResourcesStartersMilitary Power Author:Sadako Ogata
“It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.” IfsKnowsWantTryingHardPlayArtistFightingMy OwnHavensTypeProveCapableOkayHollywoodForgivingCasts Author:Sam Rockwell
“You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.” TryingTwoUsedBitsSoundFourTypeCapableMachinesCome UpGuidesSpotsLimitationKicksHatsExploitsRestrictionGearsSnares Author:Rob Brown
“As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.” PeopleSocialNumbersLeaderTechnologyTypeCapableCommunicateConnectedEndlessSpeakersBusiness LeadersMarketers Author:Simon Mainwaring
“For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.” WayKindI CanDifferentReasonImagineTypeCapableJust OneDifferent KindsExclusionDifferent Types Of Music Author:Moby
“... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-” MenSaidLastsLawBitsGrowthHeardConditionsCreationTypeCreaturesCapableFairsRaisesRoundsLipsTitlesLoudAppropriatePreachingSweetnessOrangeClockwork Author:Anthony Burgess
“The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.” TypeCapableRelationOneself Author:G. I. Gurdjieff