Unpicking Quotes & Sayings

And as we lingered in our intimate embrace, I knew that if I could freeze time right this second, I would. — Courtney Cole

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human. — Hattie Morahan

Wondering is a positive madness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Female status in Pre-Seizure culture was predicated on appetite control. But a woman in control of her desire did not function economically, and so loops were inserted into culture to accelerate female bonding in acts of over-consumption that defied restraint. These loops gave permission for loss of control. He loved the paradoxes of Pre-Seizure culture: on the one hand, building up an iconicity of self-control around images of thinness and athletic discipline, and on the other, unpicking that self-control to create necessary doubt and need. It must have been maddening to live through. — Matthew De Abaitua

He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then. — Thomas Hardy

You have fewer than 1,000 Saturdays with each child in your care before they're grown up. — Laura Vanderkam

The path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself — Pope John Paul II

The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There's a big default notion that "spare," or "precise" prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it's in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose. That adjective "precise," for example, needs unpicking. If a "minimalist" writer describes a table, and a metaphor-ridden adjective-heavy weird fictioneer describes a table, they are very different, but the former is in absolutely no way closer to the material reality than the latter. Both of them are radically different from that reality. They're just words. A table is a big wooden thing with my tea on it. — China Mieville

There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person. — Matt Smith

It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. — RuPaul

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. — Henry David Thoreau