Datum Plural Quotes & Sayings

Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well. — Marcia Cross

Nature is thought immersed in matter ... — Amos Bronson Alcott

There was a kind of willful stupidity about him. Eddie thought it was self-created and maybe propped up by his analyst, who would tell him about how he had to take care of himself, how he had to be the captain of his own ship, the author of his own destiny, respect his own desires, all that blah-blah. All the little code words and terms that meant it was all right to be a selfish fuck. That it was noble, even. — Stephen King

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. — Bella Freud

Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary ... The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

It's better to risk everything than hold on to nothing — Adrian Hadzic

He has an affair, so we have another baby?" said Anne. "This is great fucking advice."
"What elegant language," said her father, glaring at Anne. — Courtney Maum

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies. — Sasha Grey

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. — William Ernest Henley

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. — Griffin Dunne

It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society. — David Rubenstein

My father-in-law ... was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death. — Billy Graham

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want. — Alan Cohen

I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet — Steven Pinker

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don't schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this. — Ray Bradbury