“The truth is that he (Casanova) had ceased subtly to be an adventurer to become a noisy scoundrel, or if that is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Having committed this to memory, he reflected how deluded he’d been to believe he had left his past behind and become a… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything &… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I was very proud to hear that my friend Andre Johnson was like, 'Man, I'm going back to school.' I was so… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“He wondered...if the journey of a life with pain was simply finding more and more layers of acceptance, that at best the… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The focus of my life begins at home with family, loved ones and friends. I want to use my resources to create… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
“Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story.… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to… — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Copy Share Image
The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said -… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
