I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image
I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“When England introduced drop hanging in 1783 and France introduced the guillotine in 1792, it was a moral advance, because an execution… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness.… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Idly, I wonder what sort of execution Cardan might order. Maybe he'd strap me to some rocks and let the sea do… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I… — Doseone Copy Share Image
“I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough… — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution… — Ricardo Salinas Pliego Copy Share Image
Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside… — David Foster Copy Share Image
As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality… — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" --… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
