In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older,… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The problem with ideas is that they never come all at once. They emerge like prairie dogs. An edge of ear, or… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
It is something I've noticed - that my audiences are young. My only thought has been because I play all-ages shows. Even… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small,… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church."… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very… — Livingston Taylor Copy Share Image
As an assistant you have lots of ideas and suggestions that might be perfect for that moment and time, but you don't… — Mike Budenholzer Copy Share Image
So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living?… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I love Death Race, it's one of my favorite films. I thought, "You know what? All that two years worth of work… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You're learning the whole time. Halfway through a movie, you've got a lot of ideas, a lot of things that maybe you've… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
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