Granularity Quotes & Sayings

Use your dictionary to find the meaning of the new vocabulary words needed for this exercise before you begin. Write the words in your language in the space provided. Complete the following sentences using the correct form of the verb to be. 1. My aunt nice. 2. The clouds white. 3. Kathy sick. 4. The ribbons yellow. 5. We twins. 6. The windows open. — Julie Lachance

Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story! — Stephen King

LIFE is a big word, isn't it? Let's break it down into small segments. Let's find a level of granularity we can plan around; we could say we'll take it a month at a time, or a week at a time, and treat each of those modules almost as training units. — Chris Cleave

Even hypochondriacs get sick sometimes. — Robert Kroese

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. — Washington Irving

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world. — James A. Leach

Nations have the wrong granularity. They're too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing. — Nicholas Negroponte

The best cinema is about ethics. — Alexander Payne

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous. — Paloma Faith

You can't make people respond. — Arthur Boyd

This one's my other favorite. 'He's successful in interfacing with clients we already have, but as for new clients, it's low-hanging fruit. He takes a high-altitude view, but he doesn't drill down to that level of granularity where we might actionize new opportunities.'"
Clark winced. "I remember that one. I think I may have had a minor stroke in the office when he said that. — Emily St. John Mandel

To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia. — Christy Clark

Peanut: Just last week I was lying in bed and I woke up sobbing 'I will never be happy until we return to SA-NA-TA-ANA!' And now we're here! Thank you for bringing me! — Jeff Dunham

Isn't is lovely to be all together again? Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann.
She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were. — Kristin Cashore

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock ... The colors - well ... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over. — Buzz Aldrin

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing. — Lorraine Adams

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff! — Steven Tyler

She already fought so hard to separate herself from her emotions - if she got rid of her thoughts too, what would be left? — Susan Dennard

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations. — Barbara Bergmann

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting. — Daria Snadowsky