“If you wish to know things better and understand their workings more profoundly, make sure that you keep yourself at a certain… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean.… — Chloe Rattray Copy Share Image
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that… — Matthew Shultz Copy Share Image
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
