To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.'… — Dennis Conner Copy Share Image
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential… — William Happer Copy Share Image
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened,… — Allan McNish Copy Share Image
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended,… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions -… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to… — Tamara Ecclestone Copy Share Image
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they… — George Will Copy Share Image
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image