Features Quotes

• A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

  

  Timothy Bottoms
  • Film
  • Features

• When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.

  

  Walter E. Williams
  • People
  • Reason
  • Written

• Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Seeing
  • Details
  • Statistics

• Perhaps suspense has been one of the most trying features of my case. Just as I have unclasped my hand from my dear Ernest's; just as I have let go my almost frantic hold of my darling children; just as heaven opened before me and I fancied my weariness over and my wanderings done; just then almost every alarming sympathy would disappear and life recall me from the threshold of heaven itself. Thus I have been emptied from vessel to vessel, till I have learned that he only is truly happy who has no longer a choice of his own and lies passive in God's hand. Even now, no one can foretell the issue of this sickness. We live a day at a time, not knowing what shall be on the morrow. But whether I live or die, my happiness is secure, and so, I believe, is that of my beloved ones.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Children
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Deal

• I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

  

  Charles Busch
  • Develop
  • Contract
  • Animated

• Don’t get me wrong, I like the countryside. In fact, some of my best friends are geographical features.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Features
  • Best Friends
  • Countryside

• She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.

  

  Bunny Yeager
  • Body
  • Model
  • Bettie Page

• Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Soul
  • Faces
  • Features

• I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Democracy

• The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Nature
  • Face
  • Features

• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human being
  • Melancholy
  • Features

• Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Discipline
  • Keyboard
  • PC

• Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Tradition
  • Agreement
  • Aristotle

• I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • World
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.

  

  Clara Jeffery
  • Beautiful
  • Stories
  • Prison

• I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Ugly
  • My Mother
  • Features

• Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

  

  Walter Bender
  • Cutting
  • Helpful
  • Hinges

• Conduct a rigorous evaluation of the system's security features.

  

  John Callahan
  • Security
  • System
  • Evaluation

• Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Recognize
  • Features
  • Modularity

• I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

  

  William Gibson
  • Television
  • Economy
  • Bigs

• Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Temper
  • Features

• It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Impossible
  • Industry
  • Finland

• The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

  

  Kathy Sierra
  • Secret
  • Creating
  • Products

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