Underpinning Quotes

#1. This, of course, is the crux. It doesn't really matter what the language is, only whether there's a transcendent moral grammar underpinning it. No one really cares what hell's called or who runs it. They just don't want to go there.

Glen Duncan

#2. I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Neel Mukherjee

#3. The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions ... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alan Greenspan

#4. Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What

Alastair Reynolds

#5. I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.

Alan Arkin

#6. One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.

Martin Fowler

#7. What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

Aldo Leopold

#8. Every gesture, every I love you; all of it was tinted by the great ugly lie underpinning her life.

Katharine McGee

#9. I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.

Henry Paulson

#10. My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Alan Arkin

#11. The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Carl Sagan

#12. The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

Kevin Barry

#13. Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

Dave Brubeck

#14. Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Paul Singer

#15. All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

O.R. Melling

#16. I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.

Donna Karan

#17. The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy.

Stephen S. Roach

#18. In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Judd Apatow

#19. A great woe underpinning the sorrows of the world today is this: so many people think they are far better than others and they are too righteous than others, and they know far better than others, and such thoughts give them reasons for an otherwise action!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

Sidney Poitier

#21. When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

Robert Redford

#22. They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Biological behavior can be controlled by invisible forces, including thought, as well as it can be controlled by physical molecules like penicillin, a fact that provides the scientific underpinning for pharmaceutical-free energy medicine.

Bruce H. Lipton

#24. I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

Ray Lamontagne

#25. Dating and hiring have a lot in common.

Scott Wintrip

#26. The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

John Le Carre

#27. How is it you've never married?" A soft splash. "It's an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.

Tessa Dare

#28. Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

Burt Rutan