Dissecting Quotations

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

When I'm in a show, I'm dissecting it. Even though the hair may be crazy and the shoes are weird, if you see one piece, whether it's a blouse or a top or a skirt that makes sense, that's what you're looking for.

I think the risk is the downside, not the upside, ... I think the markets are fairly nervous about the prospects for growth. They're going to be dissecting the number. If we have slower than expected consumer spending and stronger than expected inventory growth, that's not going to bode well for the next quarter or so.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

We had a lot of circumstantial evidence and a lot of inconsistencies with both her statement to detectives and written statement. After dissecting both of those, we were able to disprove what she told us." ()

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.