To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Very simply, a platform is the thing you stand on to get heard. It's your stage. But unlike a stage in a… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could… — Barry Sanders Copy Share Image
In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations,… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. I felt dangerously… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups.… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has… — Paco Rabanne Copy Share Image
The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I have not been able to give a concrete answer to the question of how the nations of Asia can create their… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important… — Fujio Cho Copy Share Image
That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
The term neo-liberal does not have a good definition. It's mostly used when you are angry with somebody or dislike someone, you… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image