Acuity Quotes

#1. Professor Morgulis wrote: "The acuity of the senses is increased by fasting, and at the end of his 31 days' abstinence from food, Professor Levanzin could see twice as far as he could when his fast began.

Hilton Hotema

#2. If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Woody Allen

#3. Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

Paul Lockhart

#4. Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.

Miya Yamanouchi

#5. I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

Fiona Apple

#6. Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Julie Walters

#7. I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.

Ryan McGinness

#8. The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#9. no matter the acuity of our senses, no matter how educated we are or how good we are or how much conviction we live our lives with, we can never experience the wholeness of the answer within our own fragile and limited selves. We need one another to achieve a vision of wholeness.

John Cullinan

#10. When that happens, when you find someone who can do that to you, you latch on and never let go.

Kaylee Ryan

#11. We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

Richard Corliss

#12. Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?

Richard Corliss

#13. I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Deborah Eisenberg

#14. Job, requiring intellectual ability and acuity

Sylvain Reynard

#15. Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

Christopher Castellani

#16. Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Spiritual renewal occurs in the wilderness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Bryce Courtenay

#19. Lead me, guide me to the light of your paper. Keep me in your arc of acuity. And when the ream is spent. Write a poem on my back. I'll never wash it off.

C.D. Wright

#20. These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision.

John Fowles