It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient -… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Behold, the Cavern of Ages,” Lord Aeratas pronounced, reverently. “Depository of our ancestors’ enneagrams, held within the living stone for all eternity.”… — Terry Mancour Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
During the Atlantean Cycle, the earth's aura, the invisible astral energy field that surrounds and protects our planet and through which all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The nurturing flow of life, extreme intelligence, beauty, and perfect harmony are active in every one of us. Yoga was developed in… — Mark Whitwell Copy Share Image
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
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