Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the elements of filmmaking come together,… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. — David Rockwell Copy Share Image
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
I've proposed reforms on taxes, regulations, and trade that will all have the effect of keeping jobs and wealth in America for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image