The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“This is a critical year--maybe the last critical year if we get this wrong--when we are all challenged to recognize how we… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same;… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
I think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, gay characters, or characters that deal with sexuality issues, who are black, in 'black films'... are typically not dealt… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason.… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“Complexity is the prodigy of the world. Simplicity is the sensation of the universe. Behind complexity, there is always simplicity to be… — Idris Mootee Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Take one step at a time. A complex problem can be overwhelming, even when you've got your plan mapped out, but remember:… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the… — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last.… — Craig Lucas Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image