Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think,… — Ernesto Zedillo Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If Providence had not guided us I would often never have found these dizzy paths. Thus, it is that we National Socialists… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way,… — William D. Cohan Copy Share Image
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It matters not whether you win the race or not but that you cross the finish line with a smile and a… — Pat McBride Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
