Graham Joyce

Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

English Writer

Whit Stillman

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

American Director

Kate Christensen

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

American Novelist

Aisha Tyler

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

American Actress

John Fowles

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

English Novelist

Bowen Yang

I feel like doing Las Culturistas' for an extended period of time has taught me where to put the fulcrum on having structure and having looseness.

Vijay Sethupathi

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.

Indian Actor

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.

Indian Diplomat

Thomas Jefferson

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

American President

Archimedes

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Greek Mathematician

In physical contexts, 'fulcrum' refers to the actual point that supports movement.

Physical Pivot

'Fulcrum' may be an unseen part inside a mechanism, vital for its operation.

Not Always Visible

'Fulcrum' implies balance, as it's the stabilizing factor in a lever system.

Balance Essential

Used metaphorically, 'fulcrum' symbolizes the primary factor that everything else relies upon.

Metaphorical Core

'Fulcrum' can signify a pivotal concept or person in discussions or narratives.

Symbolic Pivot

Labeling something a 'fulcrum' emphasizes its crucial role in an outcome or process.

Critical Importance

 while your friend's weight provides the resistance force. What Archimedes learned was that there is an important relationship between the magnitudes of these forces and their distances from the fulcrum. The lever is balanced when the product of the effort force and the length of the effort arm

The mighty mathematics...

 is by imagining a teeter-totter, where the actions on one side had a direct consequence on what happens on the other side, because you see, the border itself is both a symbolic and literal fulcrum for US-Mexico relations,

Ronald Rael: An...

 of your hand over the back side of the bottle cap and you're gonna use your index finger as a fulcrum to pop top right off Cheers