With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there,… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There are moments in my life when I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing exactly what I’m supposed… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
