The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Not just the jobs building the infrastructure, but you need to have a good highway system. You need to have a good… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back,… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do… — John Green Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. — John Green Copy Share Image
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination,… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
