Omniscient Readers Viewpoint Quotes & Sayings

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time. — Barack Obama

Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You mostly can't see the moon during the day, so they can't be very efficient. — Matthew Goldman

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? — Jean Racine

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. — Remedios Varo

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. — Joyce Carol Oates

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. — Alfred North Whitehead

I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear ... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters. — George R R Martin

I'm striving for greatness, reaching for the stars, and trying to avoid being burnt by the sun! — Joan L. Sample

A system can not understand itself. — W. Edwards Deming

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. — Arsene Houssaye

I tried to point out that it's not a gimmick to teach patients suffering with OCD that their intrusive thoughts and urges are caused by brain imbalances, and that we now know they can physically alter those imbalances through mindfulness and self-directed behavioral therapy techniques. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

What about a lesson for taking eight fucking years to come back to me? What kind of a lesson would you want for that, girl?" Raw emotion lined his face.
She loved the fear of experiencing his fury, the same way she loved experiencing his gentle hand.
"To not be allowed to come after you cane me, Master?" She smiled shyly.
He nodded, but he wasn't smiling. "And what about a lesson for thinking you could marry someone else?" He dropped his voice.
She lowered her gaze.
He grasped her chin and tilted her face up. "Three weeks in the cell so you don't ever forget who owns you?"
"Yes, Master. With pleasure, Master."
"And after that, I'm making you my wife to make sure the rest of the world doesn't forget who owns you." His mouth slammed down on hers. — April Vine

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. — Wilhelm Dilthey

The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren't paying attention. — Elizabeth Bear

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE B — Susannah Cahalan