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Letter "F" » factual
«Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached»
Author: Antonin Scalia
| Keywords:
carry out, Death sentence, factual, innocence, properly, reached, sentence, sentenced to death
«I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.»
«Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.»
Author: Glenway Wescott
(Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
factual, fictive, glow, narration, nervous, strike home
«I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.»
Author: Henry R. Luce
(Editor, Publisher)
| Keywords:
epic, epics, factual, titillate, titillating, trivialities, triviality
«Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.»
«To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Literature,
Strength,
Vision
| Keywords:
absorptive, factual, fictional, perceptive
«You are the watcher; the mind is the watched. It is a beautiful mechanism, one of the most beautiful mechanisms that nature has given to you. So you can use it when needed for factual memory -- for phone numbers, for addresses, for names, for faces....It is a good tool, but that's all it is. It need not sit upon you continuously twenty-four hours a day. Even while you are sleeping, it is sitting on your chest torturing you, giving you nightmares. All kinds of relevant and irrelevant thoughts go on and on.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
addresses, chest, continuously, factual, irrelevant, name and address, phone number, torturing, twenty-four, watcher, watchers
«Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
communication, factual, photography
«Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
access, comprise, comprises, comprising, exponentially, factual, marginal, repertories, repertory, scientific knowledge
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