Delineation Quotes

#1. When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#2. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#3. In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

David Hume

#4. If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

#5. Is only a novel ... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.

Victoria Connelly

#6. In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today."

Sylvester Stallone

#7. What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Thomas Mann

#8. When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

Meg Rosoff

#9. The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Ellen McLaughlin

#10. A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

Mike Leigh

#12. Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

Woodrow Wilson

#13. I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand where I stodd yesterday, your cheeks against Heaven's curtain, and pray-Pray fervently for me to forge the bonds that bring us to eternity?

Carol Lynn Pearson

#14. Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

W. H. Auden

#15. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Optimus Prime

#16. You can start your day over at any time.

Patty Sheehan

#17. I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Dickens

#18. All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.

Daniel Goleman

#20. You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need - for which you need more money.

Douglas Adams

#21. For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Vladimir Kramnik

#22. Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Ronald Reagan

#23. Be curious, confident and courageous.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I never watch sports. Ever. The reasons are obvious - or should be to anyone who values their time.

Graeme Simsion

#25. Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Parker J. Palmer