That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy,… — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language.… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not.… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire… — Helena Copy Share Image
An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively.… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
“Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive… — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?'… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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