The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time,… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, "Do you know… — John Green Copy Share Image
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most.… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
I think in terms of best players, I would have to say Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, the Brazilian one. I was fortunate… — Michael Owen Copy Share Image
By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream… — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
![“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name…” quote by Barbara Myerhoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/86f/barbara-myerhoff-71321_affair_ritual-dwells-in-an-invisible-reality-an_1483884.jpg)
![“Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/63b/mark-twain-22_accounts_geniuses-are-people-who-dash-off-weird-w_1004031.jpg)
![“You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4d/joel-meyerowitz-24422_astonishing_you-look-at-it-a-photograph-and-all-arou_985541.jpg)
