In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
’The Art of the Brick’ exhibition is accessible because it engages the child in all of us while simultaneously illuminating sophisticated and… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know… — Eminem Copy Share Image
For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Sometimes, however, the new synthetic complex proves stable, and even serves as the beginning of a much larger cluster of attitudes that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to… — Maya Goded Copy Share Image
Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We live in a complex world. There are many forces calling out, 'Love me.' A sure way to set our guidelines for… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image