method quotes

• Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. (Thomas Gray) [method/fortune]
• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. (Joseph Addison) [method/men/genius]
• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. (Walter Benjamin) [books/method/writers/people]
• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. (Albert Einstein) [method]
• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. (Oliver Goldsmith) [love/method/pleasure]
• Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. (Thomas Gray) [method/fortune]
• There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [life/method/discipline]
• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something. (Franklin Roosevelt) [take/method]
• No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. (John Ruskin) [method]
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet] (William Shakespeare) [method]
• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. (George Bernard Shaw) [method/take/find/right]
• My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain. (Nikola Tesla) [method/imagination/mind/think]
• The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. (Simone Weil) [method/philosophy]
• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. (Oscar Wilde) [method/artist/artist/method]
• Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One (Oscar Wilde) [look/method]
• Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. (Oscar Wilde) [method/books/men]
• Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. (Virginia Woolf) [human/method/sound/ingenious]
• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. (Nicolas Cage) [method]
• A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were. (Izabella Scorupco) [actors/method/actors]
• For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/method]
• When I directed, it was in a bubble, a creative bubble and I was very spoilt there. I'd like to do it again but it would have to be under my method. (Gary Oldman) [method]
• He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you. (Jane Badler) [method/role/order/right]
• A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. (Ambrose Bierce) [method]
• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. (Jack Kevorkian) [method/concentration/death]
• My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. (John Astin) [blood/method/think]
• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. (George Clooney) [method/training/film]

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