Top 260 Method Quotes

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.
Isaac Newton
The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.
Stacey Abrams
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Thomas Sydenham
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
Tim Ferriss
I find it difficult, the method of working in the cycling union, the lack of professionalism.
Eddy Merckx
That’s the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
Frederik Pohl
But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.
William Cavendish
I’m not a Method actor. I don’t believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I’m playing a blind man, I don’t go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don’t go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.
John Malkovich
I’m not a Method actor – ask anybody.
Paula Malcomson
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
Robert P. McCulloch
My favorite on ’36 Chambers’ gotta be between ‘Method Man’ and ‘Can It Be All So Simple.’
Ghostface Killah
William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.
Richard P. Feynman
I don’t call myself a method actor, but the thing is, when you meet Reynolds Woodcock, who is always Reynolds Woodcock, you kind of are Alma, and you kind of become Alma all the time. I think after the first day, Vicky was going, ‘Oh gosh.’ It was so intense, and I couldn’t understand why it was so intense.
Vicky Krieps
Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
Barry Ritholtz
You’ll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time – it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
Lee H. Hamilton
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire Belloc
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It’s like, there’s not! There’s not a method, there’s not a science to it.
Hunter Hayes
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Edith Stein
The one effective method of defending one’s own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy’s air power with the greatest possible speed.
Giulio Douhet
I learned to paint in a historical method. First throug

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.
James Ivory
I give myself limits – not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.
Rei Kawakubo
The ‘community method’ can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the ‘community method’ clearly cannot be applied.
Angela Merkel
Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don’t go over my lines or try to solve the world’s problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.
Kevin Whately
My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are a method of storytelling.
Tom Fletcher
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Helen Frankenthaler
A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
Izabella Scorupco
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Thomas Gray
HQ kind of hearkens back to that old method of watching live television, when you couldn’t DVR it.
Scott Rogowsky
We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.
Charles Spurgeon
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can’t talk to them. It’s Method and the whole thing.
Norman Jewison
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
Albert Claude
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
Isaac Newton
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature – science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Frederik Pohl
I have my method when it comes to my work. I don’t think about who has done what, rather what I am doing is of utmost importance to me.
Diana Penty
I use this method to bring emotion into my performance. I recite my lines in English first, and then switch back to the original lines when shooting begins.
Amy Jackson
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it’s also rewarding because it’s possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.
Akira Toriyama
Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.
Piyush Goyal
I’d done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
Cary Fukunaga
I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there’s a million other ways I’d rather waste my time.
Jason Mantzoukas
I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.
Puneet Issar
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward Hopper
I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.
Keerthy Suresh
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
George Stigler
I’m not a classically trained actor. I’m not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.
Bob Newhart
Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.
Harry Lloyd
The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
Isaac Newton
I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight ‘method’ actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape – it is quite terrifying. But I really wanted to talk to him because ‘Robin Hood’ was one of my favourite films.
Tom Felton
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
Anthony Kiedis
We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.
Hussein of Jordan
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.
Mark Hanna
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.
Huston Smith
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
Timothy Noah
I am spontaneous and not a method actor.
Rishi Kapoor
I’m a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
George Clooney
I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.
Peyton List
My mother taught me to drive using the ‘Detroit Method,’ where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
W. Bruce Cameron