A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
In Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be ‘a love letter, a prayer, a purge’ but it actually becomes… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet.… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image