The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
The thing that the Microsoft folks did a really good job of is the easy-to-use tools for making application-building simple. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience. — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In… — William Bratton Copy Share Image
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
However, crisis in world trade is, among other things, the result of using political tools in competition or simply for achieving political… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image