Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, And quivers… — Julian Grenfell Copy Share Image
“Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth Copy Share Image
If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives:… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image