[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through… — James L. Jones Copy Share Image
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The practice of imagination, on an everyday basis, involves clearing unhelpful images that block or misdirect our energies, and choosing to focus… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing,… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they… — Bryan Colangelo Copy Share Image
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father… — Anne Hull Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
“Like a wise serpent shedding her skin, you are called to release whatever is no longer authentic or doesn’t serve your highest… — Elizabeth Eiler Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score… — Ron Tugnutt Copy Share Image
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I'm not travelling for external meetings, my usual day at work starts with a quiet session to plan and prioritise things… — Azran Osman Rani Copy Share Image
Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose… — David Allen Copy Share Image
If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image