At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even… — Will Muschamp Copy Share Image
“She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right… — Boy George Copy Share Image
The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a… — Jim Breyer Copy Share Image
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to… — John Medina Copy Share Image
From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are… — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
“Once our souls collided and caught fire, there was no turning back. Love is a collision of two stars -- it's as… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it… — Tom Scharpling Copy Share Image
“Rather than a meeting of the minds, their marriage was a head-on collision.” — Terry Perrel Copy Share Image
The kickoff is one of the single-most violent plays in football, to run at full speed for a head-on collision. — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. — Keith Jackson Copy Share Image
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image