Sparse Quotes

#1. I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Josh Klinghoffer

#2. My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

Liz Phair

#3. I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

Jack Dorsey

#4. In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

Katie Leung

#5. My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.

Kelis

#6. So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#7. Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.

Todd Snider

#8. We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories.

Sarah Dessen

#9. He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf.

Len Deighton

#10. For almost two years, the rain had been sparse, and grain was becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Augusta did her best to purchase whatever grain was available and send it to her people, but the ungrateful wretches still complained.

Dima Zales

#11. where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom*
*Made it up
and extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.

Terry Pratchett

#12. where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

Adele

#14. Although data on this are sparse, it also seems that US politicians of both parties are much wealthier than their European counterparts and in a totally different category from the average American, which might explain why they tend to confuse their own private interest with the general interest.

Thomas Piketty

#15. I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Kylie Minogue

#16. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Dalai Lama

#17. You're sparse." "Sparse?" "You're rake thin with obese emotions." His

Suanne Laqueur

#18. I didn't want my script to get too out of control like that. So I actually made it a point not to do stuff like that, to pretty - to keep it more sparse than it's been in the last few years, or the last decade.

Quentin Tarantino

#19. November and the sun grows sparse in the sky.

Erica Jong

#20. It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Agnes Obel

#21. Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world, mainly Kansas. We played frat parties, we played high school proms, we played clubs.

Phil Ehart

#22. His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to help me with my sparse Arabic, trying to get my pronunciation of this or that word right. "Shukran." "Afwan." "Qumbula." Thank you. You're welcome. Bomb.

Kevin Powers

#23. What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Arthur C. Clarke

#24. Well, 'vacuum with a sparse dusting of probability waves' is an accurate description of just about everything in the universe,

Neal Stephenson

#25. I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.

Morton Feldman

#26. Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

George Schaller

#27. In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

Harry Markowitz

#28. His hairline had receded from the forehead and his sparse remaining hair recalled a frosty meadow in late autumn.

Haruki Murakami

#29. The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense.

William Faulkner

#30. There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

Nick Mason

#31. But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent

Sarah Dessen

#32. The Rev's house is similar to Fiji's, but it's older, smaller, and has only sparse grass in the little front yard. It is also in no way welcoming or charming, and he has no cat.

Charlaine Harris

#33. I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.

Margo Timmins

#34. When I spoke to her, I had the feeling that her thoughts had been nourished in wide-open spaces where talk was sparse and silence ruled.

Siri Hustvedt

#35. Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.

Molly Harper

#36. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.

Tahereh Mafi

#37. Sparse on the mesa the dry weeds lashed in the wind like the earth's long echo of lance and spear in old encounters forever unrecorded.

Cormac McCarthy

#38. The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

Robert K. Merton

#39. Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.

Marcel Dzama

#40. Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Maggie Stiefvater