Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New… — Michael King Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected,… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“True Valour would do all that, when alone, that it could do, if all the World were by.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
