I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.
Our government, keeping aspirations of the Brahmin community in mind, will construct a statue of Parshuram grander than the one promised by the SP.
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.
You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
The marginalization of African-Americans within their own community based on sexuality is a construct that is more complex than the idea that 'blacks just hate gays.'
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
I love to put myself in a situation where I get to break a few things and construct a few cells in me.
The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda.
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride and insecurity.
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.
If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those who can play this game more effectively.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.
I believe in assigned sex but not necessarily gender. Gender is a learned construct that is detrimental to both sexes.
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.
All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
We are excited for the partnership between the Summa Group, the Russian government, and Hyperloop One to construct a Hyperloop in Moscow.
We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.
I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.
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