Quotes of: Useful-tool Keyword

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty b...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? ...

"E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction"

Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done. It's ...

Citations: A Brief Anthology

Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.

Artificial Gods

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tamara Feldman

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

Tanya Masse

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Samuel Adams

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

Kurt Busiek

Every month I do a webcast for 55,000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.

Terry J. Lundgren

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Nicolas Roeg

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

Sarah Shahi

I really believe that breath, in and of itself... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Bjarne Stroustrup

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Jane Wagner

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Stephen King

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Thomas Eakins

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

Andy Serkis

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Thomas Mann