The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable Copy Share Image
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development… — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else. — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for… — Sean Patrick Maloney Copy Share Image
