I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness.… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational… — Eric Abetz Copy Share Image
Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research… — Nelly Ben Hayoun Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before,… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at… — Andrew Zimbalist Copy Share Image
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V.… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .… — Plato Copy Share Image