When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving, I was going to eat the… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
If we look at Germany's infrastructure policy, it has been driven by its mission-oriented focus on green infrastructure. This affects both innovation… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't make comparisons between any movies. I compare characters. All my actions, performances, all my films, they are driven by the… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
Plenty of people within the Moslem world are not engaged in a clash with te West and don't want to do so;… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
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When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
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The industry has changed in big ways. When I started making movies, the studios were not all owned by huge conglomerates, so… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
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If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
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I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image