I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
To me, there's no question that using a metronome develops your speed and accuracy. If you're learning scales or you're jamming on… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between… — Yuan T. Lee Copy Share Image
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“The "spot-on" accuracy of the results may astound you. Once you understand yourself and realize that other people have their own sets… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“The “best guess” as to what you’ll do in any given situation is easy to make – Guess you’ll do the… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I prefer Kane's penalty-taking technique to the hop-and-skip approach that seems to be taking over football. Kane puts his foot through the… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
