Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't… — Jake Garn Copy Share Image
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I thought for a while, Barack Obama, although he wanted comprehensive reform had less a good chance of getting it than Donald… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image