Quotes of: Selecting Keyword

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

privation is the cause of appetite

Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Writings

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

John Tyler Bonner

When will the death Of Death ever come? from "The Siege

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. (from "Gratitude")

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Who will read these poems when the people are gone?

Destroyer of Man: Selected Poems

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Selected Essays, 1778-1830

We are what we adapt to.

Natural Selection's Paradox: The Outlaw Gene, the Religion of Money, and the Origin of Evil

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

Jamais Cascio

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Kenneth Burke

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them. You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

David Fincher

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Selected Poems, 1956-1968

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

Naked Heart: Selected Interviews

Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

Alec Baldwin