To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' 'What if those who do… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I’m aloof. Maybe I just want to be alone. Maybe I’m not good at conversation. We… — Jenn Bennett Copy Share Image
“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There are no general-interest media that all of us can tap into. I'm not a good person to talk to about social… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of… — Ovid Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present… — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I do think technology really has changed the way that we communicate with each other and texting can be the way to… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored,… — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
“During this time Jefferson Davis made a speech in Macon, Georgia, which was reported in the papers of the South, and soon… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other… — Alison Lohman Copy Share Image
“When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people… — Danny Burstein Copy Share Image
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I really like Twitter. It's a conversation and it reminds me of having stranger conversations on the train. I'm a New Yorker.… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities.… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“just as the former was led astray by the word of an angel, so that she fled from God when she had… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m not attempting to embarrass you or single you out. I… — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
“Isabelle had always thought of her mind as a garden, a magical place to play as a child, when the grown-ups were… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
“It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“Literature is as old as human language, and as new as tomorrow's sunrise. And literature is everywhere, not only in books, but… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.10 10… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image