Schematic Quotes

#1. That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Lenny Abrahamson

#2. I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Peter Morgan

#3. He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem.

Ian McEwan

#4. Quinn keyed up a three-dimensional holovid schematic of Vega Station and its neighbors. The jump routes were represented by sparkling jagged lines between hazy spheres of local space systems.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

Maria Semple

#6. In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

Mike Figgis

#7. For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Lance Armstrong

#8. I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.

Vera Farmiga

#9. That cloud looks like a horse," Brayden said, lying on his back pointing out the fluffy, condensed precipitation in the bright blue sky. "That one looks like a bunny and there's a Buick. Over there is the electrical schematic of a B-2 Bomber and that one looks like a Category Five hurricane.

Jay Michael

#10. I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.

Ian MacKaye

#11. None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

William Scranton

#12. Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.

Charlie Weis

#13. Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

James Merrill

#14. Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.

Paul Collins

#15. Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Charles C. Mann

#16. Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Adam Gopnik

#17. To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Jasper Johns

#18. So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Peter Carey

#19. Might you show me how to project a schematic of the entire inner solar system? I appear to be unable to zoom out from the immediate neighbourhood of Paladin." "Access that sub-menu, then select the logarithmic scale factor," Nissa said. "Thank you - I should have seen that." The

Alastair Reynolds

#20. Don't you touch my sister
or i will seriously try to kill you.
-Cyrus Smith

N.D. Wilson

#21. The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

Alan Watts

#22. Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Daniel Dennett

#23. I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

Sundra Oakley

#24. That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver's head. 'Hey, bus driver,' I said. 'Can I smoke?' 'May I,' said the bus driver. 'I love you,' I said.

Michael Chabon

#25. We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Anais Nin