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“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”

People Want Mean Said Stories Film Lines Share Concepts Sorry Dear Love Story Features Phrases Companionship Love Means

Author:Marge M. Kennedy

“High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.”

Art Fine Finance Features Selection Pretense Fine Arts Obtaining Burglary

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“Features, the great soul's apparent seat.”

Soul Faces Features Seats Great Souls

Author:William C. Bryant

“WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.”

World Character Christian Christ Figures Features Tenderness Pathetic Widows

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.”

Thinking Men Long Reason Force Acting Struggle Function Contrary Preserves Features Appropriate Description Extinction Adverse

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.”

Eye Lines Features Concentration

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.”

Should Whole Reality Choices Given Painting Features Capture Realistic Realism Prominence

Author:Alain de Botton

“A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.”

Interest Successful Capable Draws Exciting Features Spectators Successful Work

Author:Alain de Botton

“The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit”

Fun Term Mankind Profit Features Characteristics Contradiction Flaws Loser Irrationality

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

May Art Said Eye Interest Lines Style Folks Myth Staring Features Mask Dynamics Nordic Folk Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.”

Two Sometimes Beautiful Used Lines Cutting Unique Woods Block Features Tone Colour Brushes Variation Printed Printing

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.”

Ifs Should Faces Natural Gone Paint Painter Landscape Features Insult Latter Occupation Portraits Portraiture Presumptuous

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.”

Problem Generations Security Industry Computer Features Complexity Plus New Generation

Author:Avi Rubin

“The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.”

Whole Hands Science Certain Parent Nature Natural Evolution All Things Creator Features

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.”

Stills Cutting Design Features Attractive Graphic Design Typography Typefaces

Author:Wolfgang Weingart

“I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.”

Knows Ideas Innovation Simplicity Features Crucial Great Idea Saying No Saying Yes Itunes

Author:Steve Jobs

“Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.”

Looks Care Individual Special Disease Patient Features Cheerful Sympathetic Greetings

Author:William Osler

“Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.”

Materials Horse Invention Enjoyed Features Fascinating Stable Bike Bicycle Cycling Biking Riding A Bicycle Cyclists Swiftness Bike Riding

Author:Frances E. Willard

“This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.”

People Ifs Men Government Would Be Realizing Features Replaced Cabinets Resignation

Author:Will Rogers

“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.”

Men Believe Made Earth Spiritual Science Individual I Believe Growth Natural Development Features Spiritual Growth Substitutes Artificial Spiritual Development Retarded

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.”

Thinking Humans Important Able Remember Memories Forget Features

Author:Gordon Bell

“When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.”

People Firsts War Reason Government America Remember Millions Written Century Keys China Former Features Republic Idols 20th Century Slaughter Leftists Wanton Ussr

Author:Walter E. Williams

“There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.”

Stories Form Features Length Format

Author:Andreas Deja

“At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.”

Looks Certain Lines Like You Shapes Mouths Features Fatigue

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.”

Looks Ill Communism Features Brotherhood Abstraction Chill

Author:Aime Cesaire

“Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.”

Giving Years Shows Care Faces Spiritual Remains Faults Deeds Take Care Determined Features Your Face Genes Our Thoughts Inner Beauty Spiritual Beauty

Author:Dolores del Rio

“Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.”

Two Information Example Design Mass Flow Property Currents Features Heat Fluid

Book:Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

Source: Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

“I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.”

Littles Ends Sometimes Seems Desire Evil Interest Knowing Study Deserve Be Good Features Hearty

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.”

Light Dark Taught Areas Assuming Edges Features Evident Texture Taught Us

Author:Rex Brandt

“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

“When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.”

Thinking Art Different Bigs Wanted Film Produce Angel Mediums Features Ambitious

Author:Tom DeLonge

“In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.”

Soul Feelings Desire Wish Sin Simple Morning Journey Youth Limits Ocean Infinite Wings Luxury Features Immortality Fancy Hollow

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.”

World Should Mind Firsts Humans Two Might Strange Comfort Remains Features Fascinating Our World Human Mind Bizarre Arcane

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.”

“Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.”

Ifs Knows Wells Past Form Lying Roles Capacity Machines Function Certainty Features Imperfect Organisms Unpredictable Adapted Quirky Optimal

Book:Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.”

“If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.”

Ifs Way May Easy Capitalism Features Goods Zero Sensible Efficiency Supposing Supposing That

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.”

Writing Might Imagination Path Agree Guides Familiar Features Routes Terrain New Paths

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .”

People Property Chosen Brands Features Labour Division Bores Manufacturing Manuals Jehovah Workmen

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.”

Fundamentals Features Categories Quantity

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”

May Ends Seems America Evil Kingdoms Aliens Features Knavery

Author:George III

“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.”

“Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.”

Wells Persons Fall Five Building Amount Late Rewards Secure Features Too Late Indebted

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”

Firsts Mother Common Practice Expression Solutions Sight Metaphor Aids Wit Features Speakers Respectable Jam Halt Confronting Expediency Homely Mother Wit

Author:Laura Riding

“I did New York, I Love You which is a very personal film for me. My most personal film, but it's not like a film I've ever made. I would never do that film as a feature, for instance, because it's not very commercial of an idea.”

Made Ideas Film Love You New York Instance Features

Author:Brett Ratner

“As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.”

People Way Trying Ideas Dream Bigs Realizing Features Manipulate Trying To Change Lucid Dreaming Inception

Author:Christopher Nolan

“It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Life Is Joy Energy Given Waiting Alive Elements Happenings First Time Features Excitement Occupation Vitality Imperatives

Author:Mark Nepo

“Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.”

Thinking Men Sea Modern Luxury Features Modern Life Viruses Columbus

Author:Richard Wilbur

“The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.”

Men Humans Littles Two Existence Ten Features Distinguished Countenance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)