The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way… — John Collison Copy Share Image
Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating.… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
There is the fact that - people have had a lot of confidence that the Chinese leadership could fix what is wrong… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
