An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership,… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The… — John G. Miller Copy Share Image
History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people… — SQuire Rushnell Copy Share Image
I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would… — Dick Fosbury Copy Share Image
In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
Over the years I’ve worked with countless women who have inspired me with their stories. Beyond makeup, we’ve talked about life-altering events.… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
