In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above.… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
His gaze burned into mine, like he could see past my eyes into parts of me no one had ever seen, and… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
“My father used to say that when he was growing up the water was clear and there were tons of fireflies everywhere...… — Fuyumi Soryo Copy Share Image
I just cant fake a smile while I'm living denial. Everything goes by so fast except the past. It lingers around like… — Nichole Fickes Copy Share Image
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We've watched film in years past where I was getting beat and it wasn't always because of the lack of agility and… — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Wherever you you will go you, will back again. Any distance you may reached I know you will return back again. Even… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
I know my game is about trying to get past players and I know that if a bad tackle is coming my… — Adama Traore Copy Share Image
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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