Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and… — James Nares Copy Share Image
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What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved… — David Souter Copy Share Image
Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be very simple, and in… — Mark Bridges Copy Share Image
At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and… — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is… — Nathan East Copy Share Image
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
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As accurately as I possibly can. I explain , to my kid, that love's an elusive, fragile and resilient thing. And as… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need… — Dawn Olivieri Copy Share Image
Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they… — Roy MacGregor Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
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