#parameters

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #limits #literary #only #outside

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#baby #being #brat #cage #carve

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#engage #going #growing #how #iraq

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large! ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#any #appropriate #force #large #like

Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#coal #continue #efficient #energy #energy policy

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#director #get #i #involved #parameters

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#desire #even #failure #field #i

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires. ↗

— Ron Kind

#constraints #ethical #free #free world #i

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#day #freedom #lots #newspapers #next

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully. ↗

— John Crowley

#days #done #focuses #get #happy