I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet… — Sergei Korolev Copy Share Image
When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc., but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates.… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups,… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see… — Cloris Leachman Copy Share Image
I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being… — Haifaa al-Mansour Copy Share Image
When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image