Foundational Concepts Quotes & Sayings

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working. — Aubrey Plaza

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. — Robert Breault

And then what's the whole point if you're harsh to those who love you and soft to those who don't care ... — Sanhita Baruah

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails. — Simon Sinek

I've never thought about the ages of my readers. — David Macaulay

Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic. — Woody Allen

The dead neither see nor ear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979. — Karen Joy Fowler

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science. — Gene Luen Yang

Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean. — Elizabeth George

Don't we all have an itch for kitsch? — Matei Calinescu

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Do as you're told, sweetling, it won't be so bad. Wolves are supposed to be brave, aren't they? — George R R Martin