The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you won every game, which is impossible, then life would be flat and dull. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest… — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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