The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter… — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
I have a spirit guide. His name is Gray Eagle. This is why some people think I am a really crazy person,… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Route 66 is a bucket-list trip for us and it truly is an American dream to take in the sights and scenery… — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men,… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South,… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to… — Tony Wagner Copy Share Image
In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
...if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
They're my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family - something most of the world doesn't know… — Anwar Hadid Copy Share Image
For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
People will come back and influence their communities to get excited about space. Space funding will increase because people will see the… — Dylan Taylor Copy Share Image
