The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures,… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the… — David Abram Copy Share Image
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift… — Enya Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“Despair could never touch a morning like this. The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love playing characters that go to extreme places, and I love to explore different kinds of psychological landscapes, so it is… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
“Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
