Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel about it, and how you hear what… — Jean Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the guys who run the visual effects shop will bury it in and not tell us. We'll be in the middle… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
