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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #roughly




If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.


Muriel Spark


#christian #going #may #should #thing

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#bigot #call #definite #dogma #end

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.


Maureen Dowd


#always #eats #enjoy #exercise #last

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.


V. S. Naipaul


#background #character #fiction #had #i

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.


Terry Pratchett


#books #develops #dots #drive #end

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.


Jerome K. Jerome


#idling #impossible #plenty #thoroughly #unless

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.


Famke Janssen


#breakout #chances #character #develop #get

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.


Steve Jobs


#anymore #been #better #cases #copies

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.


Phillip E. Johnson


#acquiesce #evolutionary #faith #naturalistic #personal

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.


J. Philippe Rushton


#because #claimed #common #construct #genes