Dramatistic Perspective Quotes & Sayings

Objects hide their data behind abstractions and expose functions that operate on that data. Data structure expose their data and have no meaningful functions. — Robert C. Martin

El duende is literally the goblin wind or force behind a person's actions and creative life, including the way they walk, the sound of their voice, even the way they lift their little finger. It is a term used in flamenco dance, and is also used to describe the ability to "think" in poetic images. Among Latina curanderas who recollect story, it is understood as the ability to be filled with spirit that is more than one's own spirit. Whether one is the artist or whether one is the watcher, listener, or reader, when el duende is present, one sees it, hears it, reads it, feels it underneath the dance, the music, the words, the art; one knows it is there. When el duende is not present, one knows that too. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later. — Anthony Bourdain

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ... — George R R Martin

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time. — Patrick Macnee

Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world. — William Faulkner

She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten. — Johnny Worthen

Remember what I said at the very beginning? Now, I'm giving you a choice: You can put the book down now - but you'll just have some of the story. Look other places for more of it. Dig even deeper, and you could become part of it. The web of answers is out there. If you can find the portal. Be careful. And don't say I didn't warn you. Max — James Patterson

What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient! — John Milton

Chi's faith means nothing, because it has nothing to do with me. Chi's faith is blind. He doesn't see me. But Jo does.

Jo always has. — Eliza Crewe

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs. — James Callis

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized. — Mike Ditka

You only lose that which you cling to. — Gautama Buddha

I wish I would have known you earlier so I could love you longer.
- Derek Miles — Derek Miles