How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds… — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama,… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
“Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I… — George Michael Copy Share Image
It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
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For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so… — Paul W. Ewald Copy Share Image
The word; the forth-speaking of a thought, an idea, a truth, is the beginning of every new creation, or pulse of creation.… — Samuel Longfellow Copy Share Image
Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in… — Halsey Copy Share Image
When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
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Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
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