“I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.” FeelsArtRealCuttingArt IsEvidenceUniversalBullshit Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.” LittlesCuttingInformationEvidenceShadowChainsDataOver YouPursuedStarting OverLeaks Author:Bruce Sterling
“Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!” LongNightLostMy OwnClearCuttingFeetMissingFieldsBrokenColdEvidenceToughTiredHungrySnowIceSmokeSeatsFuelHopelessEquipmentEmergenciesTruckTemperatureInjuredTanksCeilingsJuryHailPadsPavementHelicoptersRiggedMachetesPropane Author:Mark Mason
“It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.” PeopleHas BeensGivenCausesAcceptingIssuesClearCuttingEvidenceClimateClimate ChangeObviousTangible Author:Sylvia Earle
“There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion would hardly surprise anyone. I think there's evidence to suggest that it's even narrower - the great majority of friends of Ivy Leaguers, for instance, are Ivy Leaguers. This narrows the pool of people who can write fiction cutting across class boundaries that's informed by their own personal experience.” PeopleThinkingWritingStudyCuttingEvidenceSurpriseBoundariesConclusionPool Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.” Has BeensRealEndsWholeCuttingEvidenceMy FriendsDefeatedVague Book:The Mysterious Affair at Styles Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections." Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that house, but personally, I'm not about to get anywhere near it with anything resembling a weapon.” TryingHouseSawsCuttingWeaponsEvidenceSections Author:Christine Feehan
“Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?” WellsLongSaidStillsMatterPainDiesLeftCuttingFashionFieldsActivityEvidenceJazzFingersTerrorHorribleReportsAlrightRelieved Author:Barry Lyga
“But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.” NightWishCuttingEvidenceSpotsNecksScarJustificationHealedStainsPermanenceMasons Author:Gayle Forman
“Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.” MenHumansLittlesPersonsLongStillsDiesProcessMemoriesCuttingGrowingEffectsChangedEvidenceRemainsWaveMeatPoolStillnessCows Book:Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 Source: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.” ProblemCausesNaturalClearCuttingOne ThingEconomicEvidenceClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeFoolishSignificantObservationGlobal WarmingPenaltiesHarshSevereConvincingDrasticHypotheticalEnvironmental ProblemsConvincing Evidence Author:Frederick Seitz
“Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.” KnowsMatterSpiritCuttingPersonalitySurvivalEvidenceAfterlifeBlades Author:Dan Aykroyd