We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex. — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
“I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach… — Rebecca Clare Smith Copy Share Image
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
“She stood at the edge of a glassy river lined with impossibly tall trees, fanning out their wide emerald leaves among the… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Only the lighted houses remaining, the lemon blush of their inhabited windows.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together-a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. — John Thaw Copy Share Image
