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Quotes About Net

Lay down a map of the land; over that, set a map of political change; over that, a map of the Net, especially the counter-Net with its emphasis on clandestine information-flow and logistics and finally, over all, the 1:1 map of the creative imagination, aesthetics, values. The resultant grid comes to life, animated by unexpected eddies and surges of energy, coagulations of light, secret tunnels, surprises.
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.
~ Peter Watts
A 'wedgie' is exactly what you think it is. It's the ball getting stuck between the basket and the backboard.
~ Baron Davis
What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.
~ Paul Ryan
I am a pilgrim of the Unknown - That is my joy. It raises and resolves All my conflicts. No sooner has the Known bound me fast in her net, Than appears the Unknown And it bewilders me! - Poem 30
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Now astronomical wages are making it very difficult to take somebody who might not even have a transfer fee attached to them, because of the net value that they want and the net value that they're worth.
~ Sam Allardyce
My game is suited to grass because I'm really aggressive on the court. I have a big serve, I'm quick, I hit the ball hard, and I go to net so I have everything a player needs to do well on grass.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
But if our philosophy tells us that each man is only a small part of the world, that his intelligence catches at best only phases and aspects in a coarse net of ideas, then, when we use our stereotypes, we tend to know that they are only stereotypes, to hold them lightly, to modify them gladly.
~ Walter Lippmann
Es la declaración de los condenados al éxito: «Mas en tu palabra, echaré la red».
~ Dante Gebel
I completely disagree with Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute on the need for dignity in the marketplace instead of the social safety net, but he is a very persuasive character.
~ Richard Edelman
Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.
~ Todd Young
Volleying comes into grass-court tennis because it's a surface that favours the player who gets on the front foot. So if you've got an opportunity to come in and be aggressive, then finishing the points at the net is always going to be a good strategy.
~ Tim Henman
I'm pretty Net-savvy. My surfing time is precious.
~ Sushmita Sen
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Chief among these changes will be the triggering of synchronicity: we change and the universe furthers and expands that change. I have an irreverent shorthand for this that I keep taped to my writing desk: "Leap, and the net will appear.
~ Julia Cameron
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
~ Emma Goldman
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
~ John Donne
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Glory
The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception.
~ Debasish Mridha
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
~ Robert Frost
society. The orbital technology enabling this observation is itself one of the strange and striking aspects of the transition now gripping Earth. If up to now the defining characteristic of Earth has been planetary-scale life, then what about these planetary-scale lights? Might this spreading, luminous net be part of a new defining characteristic? Even
~ David Grinspoon
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
~ Bob Dole
The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.
~ Joshua Kushner