As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that… — Asa Baber Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of… — Warren Leight Copy Share Image
It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once… — Jamal Mahjoub Copy Share Image
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite… — William Herbert Sheldon Copy Share Image
I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
