A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
The Thick of It' is not 'Spitting Image,' mocking recognisable establishment figures of the day. The writers don't so much react to… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was… — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special… — Jerry Reed Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff. — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as… — Roger Milla Copy Share Image
The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right. — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
Halloween: Is one night of the year when all households save the most on their electricity bill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying.… — Jwala Gutta Copy Share Image
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman 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
I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted… — Enya Copy Share Image
Are we celebrating the fact that Guy Fawkes got caught trying to blow up parliament or he tried to have a go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
