“You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"” KnowsShouldMeanCharacterPurposeUniverseSpaceWorstInformationDialogueCraftsStations Author:Robert Stone
“The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.” MeanMadeInspirationEarthTogetherMotivationUniverseSunAimSticksPhysicsBillionsGalaxyParticlesParticle Physics Author:Brian Cox
“To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety.” FeelsBelieveMayMeanMomentsUniverseSecretHarmonyHorribleExplanationBalancedEquationsChaoticMindlessCoherenceEntirety Author:Paul Murray
“The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” MindHumansMeanEndsStatesGovernmentJoyUniverseHeavenPerfectLibertyMoralHellVirtuePlansCreationDivineHorrorApproachIntellectualPreparedRewardsVicesSupremePunishmentImitationDisobediencePietyReward And Punishment Author:John Adams
“In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.” MeanTwoEndsBodyPurposeUniverseIndividualAnimalSupportProducePlantSpeciesAdmireMechanismAdvancingArtificePropagation Book:The Essential Adam Smith Source: The Essential Adam Smith
“I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.” ThinkingWorldMeanBeautifulUniverseExcitedBeautiful Women Author:Gael Garcia Bernal
“I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.” KnowsMeanSpiritualUniverseStarsSunMoonTunesGood RelationshipMoon And StarsJinnSun MoonSun Moon And Stars Author:Ghostface Killah
“Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.” IfsWayMeanUseUniverseReaderPlotExesPlagueClosurePerpetrators Author:Charles Stross
“We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.” MeanEndsEnoughUniversePayAttentionAchieveParticularConcernedDetermineContraryPay AttentionJustifyGood EnoughAnxiousPsycho Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956 Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.” IfsMindMeanWholeBodyTurnsUniverseSpaceMeditationEnlightenmentOneselfInfinityBondageMind And BodySealsEcstatic Author:Dogen
“I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.” MenWayMeanDonePastUniverseJusticeDarkOpinionSeriesPhoenixX MenPersonal Opinions Author:Timothy Miller
“It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.” KindMayMeanPersonsMomentsInspirationSufferingUniverseVisionOne ThingWillingCommitmentCriticismDifficultyObstaclesSurfaceCompromiseManifestVisualizingUncooperative Book:The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection Source: The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection