Calibrated Quotes

#1. Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. 'Most of the people are really nice,' I finally said.

John Green

#2. Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

Arthur Fogel

#3. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?

Dave Eggers

#4. How was it that a complex, a nervous and delicately calibrated mind like my own, was able to adjust itself perfectly after a shock like the murder, while Bunny's eminently more sturdy and ordinary one was knocked out of kilter?

Donna Tartt

#5. Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

Luc Ferrari

#6. To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

Richard Russo

#7. Without free will, sinners and criminals would be nothing more than poorly calibrated clockwork,

Sam Harris

#8. The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

Anna D. Shapiro

#9. No text more thoroughly penetrated Cleopatra's world. In an age infatuated with history and calibrated in glory, Homer's work was the Bible of the day.

Stacy Schiff

#10. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

Rohinton Mistry

#11. We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

Nate Silver

#12. The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

#13. The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. Louis XIV often appeared as a Roman emperor, adorned with other symbols...
The quality, number, value, and length of fabric, plumes, jewelry, and trains were all calibrated to status.

Jennifer Homans

#16. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

Carl Sagan

#17. I loved her weight in my arms. It was like I'd always been an unbalanced scale that was finally correctly calibrated.

Emily Bleeker

#18. Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Luc Ferrari

#19. In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?

Martin Guevara Urbina

#20. All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I'm having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world - sights, sounds, smells - into a coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past.

Noah Hawley

#22. Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

David Rakoff

#23. I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.

Paul Theroux

#24. I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

John Scalzi

#25. The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

Bruno Latour

#26. For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

Rebecca Solnit

#27. You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

Michael Moore

#28. I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?

Rachel Hartman

#29. Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it.

Billy Graham

#30. I asked Joe if he hated Ivy and Bucky. He said, "That would make as much sense as hating a rattlesnake. You don't hate rattlesnakes; you avoid them.

Maria Semple

#31. Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted.

Catherine Lacey

#32. We confuse what is complex (raising a child, finding more meaning in our lives) with what is complicated (sending astronauts to the moon, doing our taxes). Confusing the two, leads us to complicated solutions for things that are actually complex instead.

Patti Digh

#33. When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

Leonard Nimoy

#34. Marie Laurencin.

Stella Gibbons

#35. You are enchanted - only a princess can leave glass footprints in the snow ...

John Geddes

#36. Would ya like to
" Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, "Get a drink with me?

Michelle M. Pillow

#37. I don't need religion to tell me to hate fags.

Miranda Cosgrove

#38. He was, however, obliged to leave the university, because Nathaniel's story had created a sensation, and it was universally considered a quite unpardonable trick to smuggle a wooden doll into respectful tea parties in place of a living person.

E.T.A. Hoffmann