The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write… — Morley Copy Share Image
Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy… — Robert Forster Copy Share Image
I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We must have a government which is not only a guarantor of public order and safety and which preserves the right of… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found… — Theodore William Richards Copy Share Image
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential… — John Galt Copy Share Image
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the… — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image