Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not… — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity… — Eliot Pattison Copy Share Image
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With… — Ken Paulson Copy Share Image
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
