The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance. — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“Confluence didn’t guarantee connection, and indeed could underscore its absence.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level,… — Daniel Sunjata Copy Share Image
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make.… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one. It… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We’ve gotten wind of a confluence.” Apollo set the folder on Quorum’s desk. Quorum pulled the folder over and flicked it open… — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
“The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design. — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
