Abstracts Quotes

#1. Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Giambattista Vico

#2. Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

Elizabeth Berg

#3. People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

John Brunner

#4. My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.

Ted Godwin

#5. I really need to restructure my life so I can spend more time reading abstracts and less time punching dinosaurs."

- Atomic Robo

Brian Clevinger

#6. She had interesting cracks on her ceiling, which she had mentally enhanced and colored to make a virtual series of 723 abstracts.

Anne Charnock

#7. I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

Mika.

#8. The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.

Fulton J. Sheen

#9. Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,
to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

Jonathan Swift

#10. The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

Etienne Gilson

#11. The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

Fred Brooks

#12. I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.

Trina Robbins

#13. As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Shoshana Zuboff

#14. A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Alan Moore

#15. For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

Ernest Mandel

#16. Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Aaron Copland

#17. I'll be whatever you need me to be.

A.L. Jackson

#18. The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize ... It was only a dream

Yasmin Mogahed

#19. There's a use for everything and everything has it's use.

Kate DiCamillo

#20. If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

Baron D'Holbach

#21. It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

Margaret Atwood

#22. Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Neil Gaiman

#23. I'd rather be a thing than an angel

Charlotte Bronte

#24. I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

Lee Trevino

#25. While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

Bill Condon

#26. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

Andrew Solomon

#27. He'd said he was in love with her. And that just filled her up and emptied her out again. It made her want to shake, it made her want to weep. It made her want to hold onto him as if her life depended on it.

Nora Roberts