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Quotes About Recasting

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
~ Matthew Arnold
Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
~ Aaron Taylor-Johnson
late-nineteenth-century recasting of the Civil War's achievement from African American emancipation to white reconciliation
~ Elizabeth D. Samet
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
~ Graham Joyce
What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.
~ Harold Bloom
It was good to know that memory could be melted down and recast if it came out flawed the first time around, just like a bell.
~ K.J. Parker
We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.
~ D. B. Weiss
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
~ Unknown
Style… is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
~ Matthew Arnold
Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.
~ Nicolas Chamfort