Quotes of: Devise Keyword

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Terry Pratchett

Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Raymond Chandler

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Herbert Simon

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

Love

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Mark Millar

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

Neil Jackson

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

George C. Williams

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.

Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Martin Filler

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

Dexter Fletcher

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Tycho Brahe

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

Westbrook Pegler

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Life

The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a mirac...

Marianne Williamson

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

P. J. O'Rourke

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Bono