If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on… — Howard Berman Copy Share Image
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a… — Harry Ransom Copy Share Image
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to… — Chris Hart Copy Share Image
Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and… — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure,… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart. — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of… — Henry Harland Copy Share Image
Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image