But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events.… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they...… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Whether it's Al Michaels, when the earthquake happened in San Francisco and his ability to handle it like Walter Cronkite would have… — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and… — Colin McRae Copy Share Image
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
