For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
From my vantage point as a catcher, those are tough lineups to face when guys lay off the tough pitches and work… — Buster Posey Copy Share Image
Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“An adversity is not a picnic camp where you sit and have a pity party, but a bridge to a better vantage… — Vincent Wambua Nzoka Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
“As unlikely as it sounds from the vantage point of today, Trump and The Apprentice, up through the end of the decade,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“When someone in privileged circumstances gets a bit bewildered or stymied or maybe stumbles, the light he sees things in will change.… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“she grabbed her bag and strode to the front door, able to hear the murmur of the Hudson in the background. She… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of… — Feist Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“Fairies with gossamer wings, Bring forth beauty, grace and joyful things. Fairies of the earth are caretakers of our soil, water and… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
“From my vantage point I can see the back of his neck flush pink beneath his collar. He's got freckles there, too.… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“...close up, a world's all dirt and rocks... The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We don't know where we'll end up, but making moments matter - taking a step back to see something from a different… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on". — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' - that is a Venezuelan… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Relativity and quantum mechanics have demonstrated clearly that what you find out with instruments is true relative only to the instrument you’re… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The car was only partway submerged; David must have regained control enough to brake before driving all the way into the water.… — John M. Cusick Copy Share Image
I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict,… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
“The higher we climb, the more comprehensive the view. Each new vantage point yields a better understanding of the interconnection of things.… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful, because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Because we're on the outside of everything, and we're a small group of countries - Scandinavia , we have a unique vantage… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
On Russia, I can only repeat what the president [Barack Obama] said. This is all about respecting certain principles, and I'm saying… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image