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Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of… — George Biddell Airy Copy Share Image
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been… — Gwen Jorgensen Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly… — Srully Blotnick Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Dan Inosanto Copy Share Image
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
