“One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.” BookBodyPlansPagesThirdsInstanceTitlesDabs Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.” YearsWarThreeFourEventsBattleThousandPagesHundredDecidedInstanceDevotedVolumeRoutesDescribingParticipantsCrusades Book:The New Psychohistory Source: The New Psychohistory
“On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.” IfsFirstsCertainOrderTermWorryPagesInstanceWho We AreBiologyInvitationsGeologyPaleontologyAntelopes Author:Joseph Sittler
“Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldKindMeanRealProblemPoliticalPartyMediaFrontsInvolvedSummerPagesPopulationDebateInstanceSuitsDiversePolitical PartiesExaggeratedReal ProblemsBathingMontrealQuebecYes Or NoBathing Suits Author:Andre Pratte
“["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.” WorldFeelsHomeThis WorldPagesNotesScriptsInstance Author:Elijah Wood
“Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor are they God-given. We make these rules, those of the WTO [World Trade Organization] Treaty for instance, which fill tens of thousands of pages. These words have been strung together by human beings and are also interpreted and enforced by human beings.” WorldHumansHas BeensMadeTogetherGivenHuman BeingsEconomyPagesOrganizationTradeInstanceOur WorldArrangementsTreatiesWorld TradeWorld EconomyGround RulesWorld Trade Organization Author:Thomas Pogge
“Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.” ThinkingSaidTearsPagesCancerCuresInstanceKicksAccurateCriedChuckRadarVandalismDeleting Author:John Green