Version Quotes - page 3

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. (Penelope Lively)
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. View quote
Rick Riordan
When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta. View quote
Susan Orlean
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them. View quote
Charles Cumming
The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians. View quote
Gary DeMar
Philosophers might care to ask themselves ... how often they are accomplices in increasing the audience for a second-rate article simply because their introductory course needs a simple-minded version of a bad idea that even freshmen can refute. Some of the most frequently reprinted articles in twentieth-century philosophy are famous precisely because nobody believes them; everybody can see what's wrong with them. ... The confirmation of this claim is left as an exercise for the reader. Among the memes that structure the infosphere and hence affect the transmission of other memes are the laws of libel. View quote
Daniel Dennett
I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster. View quote
David Levithan
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in... View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
[A] skyhook is ... an exception to the principle that all design, and apparent design, is ultimately the result of mindless, motiveless mechanicity. A crane, in contrast, is a subprocess or special feature of a design process that can be demonstrated to permit the local speeding up of the basic, slow process of natural selection, and that can be demonstrated to be itself the predictable (or retroactively explicable) product of the basic process. ... [T]he physicist Steven Weinberg, in Dreams of a Final Theory (1992) ... distinguishes between uncompromising reductionism (a bad thing) and compromising reductionism (which he ringingly endorses). Here is my own version. We must distinguish reductionism, which is in general a good thing, from greedy reductionism, which is not. The difference, in the context of Darwin's theory, is simple: greedy reductionists think that everything can be explained without cranes; good reductionists think that everything can be explained without skyhooks. (Daniel Dennett)
(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you. View quote
John Boyne
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. View quote
Edward St Aubyn
The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it. View quote
Carlton Cuse
The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing. View quote
Stephen Amell
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. View quote
Ann Brashares
If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that. View quote
David Guetta
In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book. (Terry Southern)
You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person. View quote
Jenny Han
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. View quote
Alan Thicke
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra. View quote
Bill Sienkiewicz
In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided. View quote
Bob Beauprez