Granular Quotes

#1. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Nate Silver

#2. I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Mark Zuckerberg

#3. Bone-char is a granular material produced by charring animal bones. Bone- char is used to refine crude oil into petroleum jelly.

Kayla Fioravanti

#4. However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular masses of equal size. I never found organisms. Thus, I conclude that bacteria do not occur in healthy human or animal tissues.

Robert Koch

#5. The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar
/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Kay Ryan

#6. My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

Skrillex

#7. You were, are
cactus tourism.

meeting you: granular

fractals borrowed from oceans.

Virginia Petrucci

#8. Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

Frank Herbert

#9. Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

Nick Harkaway

#10. Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big & granular & unexpected, I wanted to understand it. .,.. Does it happen this way to all grandmothers?

Lesley Stahl

#11. Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.

Billy Beane

#12. Have you ever tried to organise a threesome in real life?'

I shook my head. I'd only encountered them in porn, but it seemed to happen without much admin, the same way all porn skipped out the granular details of sex, like condoms and kissing, that were supposed to happen in real life.

Olivia Sudjic

#13. I've always understood pornography to be an industry growing ever more granular, appealing to smaller and smaller segments of idiosyncratic perversion.

Drew Nellins Smith

#14. Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.

Erwin Schrodinger

#15. But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Dorothy Osborne

#16. God is disappointed when we don't realize that others are trying too.

Dale G. Renlund

#17. To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

Stieg Larsson

#18. He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

#19. Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.

W.C. Fields

#20. In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

Evgeny Morozov

#21. Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot

#22. Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

#23. Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

Melissa Gilbert

#24. It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

Paul Gallico