“In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.” BookMomentsWantedPastPurposePerspectivePaperPresent MomentDefinitePlatoPapersSimilarity Author:Peter Ackroyd
“But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.” IfsRealActionValuesElementsAspectDefinedDistinctionDefiniteCognition Author:Samuel Alexander
“Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.” MadeSaidStillsMatterEarthScienceWaterFireAirWindStonesInfiniteCloudsDefiniteDensityRarityUndefined Author:Theophrastus
“I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.” YearsSleepNew YorkBedPaidFrustrationChairsDefinite Author:Gillian Jacobs