A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Henry Mayhew
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
William Bernbach
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.
Charles Sturt
Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Marilyn vos Savant
Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
Martha Beck
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
Jeff Vandermeer
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
Eyvind Johnson
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
Henry Martyn
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Billy Sunday
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John Irving
I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
Josh Hutcherson
I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
Neil Cavuto
I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.
John Eaton
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
Clifford Geertz
If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!
Richard G. Scott
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