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Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with the physical and virtual worlds. What is Siri but search? What are apps like Yelp or Foursquare, but structured search machines? Search has become embedded into everything and has reached well beyond its web-based roots.
~ John Battelle
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
~ John Piper
Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
sitting in the booth and I get the same result. Either his battery is dead—it happens fast on flights if you forget to put it on airplane mode or to turn it off—or his phone was off. Perhaps
~ Steve Martini
el modo de vida americano» (lo que tanto en Truman como en su sucesor, Eisenhower, aparece ligado a la religión; el enemigo es «el comunismo ateo»),
~ Josep Fontana
Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~ Bertrand Russell
but Their mode of speech was transmitted thought. Even now They talked in Their tombs.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
~ Renee Fleming
Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.
~ Peter Senge
Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.
~ Susan Sontag
es precisamente esa ausencia de interés por la verdad –esa indiferencia ante el modo de ser de las cosas– lo que yo considero la esencia de la charlatanería." (Frankfurt, 2006: 44.).
~ Juan Sáez Carreras
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
~ Bill Joy
Enid Corval took a seat at the bar. Considering it was only eleven a.m., business seemed pretty brisk. There were maybe ten people scattered amongst the thirty or so stools, equally spaced apart, no one right next to anyone else, like men's urinals in a public bathroom. They all huddled over their drink, eyes down in protective, don't-converse-with-me mode. A group of bikers on the right played pool on a table with ugly rips in the green fabric.
~ Harlan Coben
BLOOM: I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. INTERVIEWER: It's always interminable? BLOOM: I do not know anyone who has ever benefited from Freudian or any other mode of analysis, except by being, to use the popular trope for it, so badly shrunk, that they become quite dried out. That is to say, all passion spent. Perhaps they become better people, but they also become stale and uninteresting people with very few exceptions. Like dried-out cheese, or wilted flowers.
~ Harold Bloom
This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.
~ James Harden
Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.
~ Sarah Hall
I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
~ Tori Amos
A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
~ Kapil Sibal
Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming.
~ Steven Levy
We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world's first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.
~ Shervin Pishevar
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
~ Cornel West
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
~ Jeremy Bentham