I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being a pretty girl, because you want to be, desirable. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive… — Dogen Copy Share Image
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion. — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
“She pulled out a blue dress made of washed silk that was so soft it felt like skin. Size six. There was… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It is on balance desirable to encourage Universal Jurisdiction, and to create pressure from below to make application of such jurisdiction as… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
