Linear Quotes

"Beyond the Sea (2004) is not a linear story at all. It`s not what people will expect and it`s not a biopic. It`s my statement".

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I`m not linear in thinking, I`m not very logical.

(On his instincts as an actor) "When I first read the script for Hard Target, I thought, "I`m gonna glue my ears back for this role,` and I had no idea why at the time. In my mind`s eye I saw the character as being linear, sleek; he looked like a Doberman. So I got my hair cut in a certain way. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, `This is my need; this is what`s going to get me further; this is what`s going to be alive. I don`t ever say, `Do you mind if...?` I just come in and do it."

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I`ve always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

For us to believe what we see, feel and touch in time, linear time as we know it, is the only extant context in which life happens. I think it`s fairly naive, man, you know. So, you know, who`s to say there`s not a parallel universe?

I hate to sound like a Pollyanna, ... but in a way (the ordeal) was kind of a blessing. It puts things in perspective. You learn who your friends are; you realize the importance of family. I was 18 when I did Sound of Music . My life started to get very linear; I started to get tunnel vision. (The injury) opened my eyes as to how I wanted to be as a human being.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

I thin many people`s deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there`s an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

This is about allowing people to traverse a vast linear park system. The quality of life is going to improve in Boston and for all of us.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I`ve ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Anyone who has sat down intending to read through the entire Bible can attest to the difficulty. We are used to starting a book at the beginning and reading through to the end. Events follow each other in a linear fashion and build on each other. But the Bible is not like that.

It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.