Acute Quotations
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Daredevil (film)Daredevil is a 2003 film featuring characters from Marvel comics. A blind man whose remaining senses are superhumanly acute battles crime as the ...
Lee Kuan Yew
When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and ... When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and ...
England
It is situated on the island of Great Britain and located in the ... and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the ...
John Updike
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, ...
Bruce Sterling
in the Long Now talk "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" (2004) ... close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute. ...
Frankenstein (novel)
I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. ...
Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ... aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. ...
Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938) was a ... such an acute perception of the psychological difference between the prophetic and the mystic types of ...
Czesław Miłosz
And, alas, a temptation to pronounce it, similar to an acute itching, becomes an obsession which doesn't allow one to think of anything else. ...
Arthur Balfour
As Foreign Secretary he authored the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the ... should be written by an acute enemy. Observer (London, Jan. 30, 1927) ...
Spain
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ...
Worldliness
There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness. ... by a humorous worldliness, his acute intelligence by a curiosity that frequently ...
Jay London
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said "Compared to who?" A guy gave me a job at an information booth, no questions asked. ...
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a British nurse, a ... chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine — they are intoxication, drunken ...
Avril Lavigne
Please review Wikiquote:Templates, especially the standard format of people articles, to ... It was kinda funny though.he said I have "Acute Laryngitis" ...
Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton (9 January 1900 – c. 23 March 1939) was an American author. ... for my way is to be ever changing, but always swift, acute and leaping from ...
Earthworm Jim
(reading the Idiot's Guide to Hideously Dangerous Places) "The Boulevard [of Acute Discomfort] is popular with murderers, black marketeers, and yellow-suited crows. ...
Tai chi chuan
Push Hands practice is extremely important because it requires an acute ability to sense and become aware of mistakes and flaws in the opponent's moves. ...
Claude Debussy
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. ... Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can ...
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child (February 11, 1802 – July 7, 1880 in Wayland, Massachusetts) was an ... imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. ...
Repo! The Genetic Opera
The Genetic Opera is a 2008 American rock opera-musical film directed by Darren Lynn ... I remember marking every victim with acute precision. I remember, every time I hold you, ...
Galileo Galilei
Despite his open and acute mind, and though he has at his fingertips the motions ... Despite his open and acute mind, and though he has at his fingertips ...
Charlotte's Web (1973 film)
It would serve you right if you had an acute attack of indigestion. Templeton: [pats his gurgling stomach] My stomach can handle anything. ...
Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan (born January 3, 1941) is a radical feminist, writer and ... we feminists have termed the "acute terminal testosterone-poisoning" theory of ...
Superman
This article is for quotations of this character's appearances in printed media; ... Superman': My hearing's very acute. [edit] The Adventures of Superman ...
Management
MANAGEMENT: A class of semi-skilled corporate hirelings whose rise within the ... No doubt, a very acute and intense intelligence in these narrow lines can be ...
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ... Relying too much on the offensive weapons of their acute angles instead of the defensive organs of good sense ...
Wallace Stevens
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, ... The acute intelligence of the imagination, the illimitable resources of its ...
Maurice (novel)
Alive, but slightly absurd; they misunderstood him so utterly: they exposed their weakness when they thought themselves most acute. He could not help smiling. ...
Sydney Smith
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ... Are you an acute man, and see sharply for small distances? ...
Reinhard Heydrich
Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee conference, which finalized plans for the ... Heydrich had an incredibly acute perception of the moral, human, professional ...
Conservatism
To a conservative, the goal of change is less important than the insistence that ... the grief of loss will be more acute than the excitement of novelty or promise. ...
The Aviator
It is a biopic of the aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, following his life from ... Too many acute angles. Too many... eccentricities. We have to be very ...
Aphorisms
The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his ... Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned ...
Anaïs Nin
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they ... flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of ...
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe (1900-10-03 - 1938-09-15) was an American short story writer and novelist ... no doubt, by a less acute and understanding race of men,— all ...
Sun Tzu
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. Speed is the essence of war. ...
Lolita (1962 film)
And so, in our opinion, she's suffering from acute repression of the libido of zee natural instincts. Vee Amerikans, vee are progressive and modern. ...
Carl von Clausewitz
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success. ...
Karl Dönitz
You armed merchant boats before the U.S.A. was in the war. ... He is acute, in no ways dull, but his mind seems to have blocked out the salient features of the trials thus far. ...
Heath Ledger
This page has been listed as needing cleanup since 2008-08-23. ... Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, ...
Charles Baudelaire
Without her, all the faculties, sound and acute though they may be, seem nonexistent; whereas the weakness of some secondary faculties is a minor ...
John Constable
They [French critics of the Paris Salon of 1824, where his painting 'the Hay Wain' received a gold medal] are very amusing and acute — but very shallow and feeble. ...
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