Conventionality Vs Uniqueness Quotes & Sayings

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. — Mary Augusta Ward

It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate. — Steven Pinker

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor - not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. — Stephen Jay Gould

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx. — Chris Rock

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people. — Mike Ness

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. — James Earl Jones

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly. — J.I. Packer