Extending Quotes · Page 4

If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If…

— Samuel Butler

'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the…

— Eric Schlosser

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men…

— George Eliot

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

— Michio Kaku

Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and…

— Daniel Coyle

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future…

— Clifford D. Simak

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the…

— Ronald Reagan

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances…

— Thomas Jefferson

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately…

— Dennis Hastert

We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried…

— Jack Kornfield

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only…

— Plutarch

Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a…

— Niklas Zennstrom

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because…

— Peter Hain

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern…

— Harry S. Truman

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

— Tom Hiddleston

We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow…

— Ray Kurzweil

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the…

— Aristotle

Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a…

— Northrop Frye

People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself.…

— Edwin Morgan

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

— Anthony Burgess

Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power,…

— Laurie Anderson

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry…

— J. D. Hayworth

I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.

— Blake Griffin

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through…

— Michel de Montaigne

Giving means extending one's love with no conditions, no expectations and no boundaries. . . Peace of minds occurs, therefore, when we…

— Gerald Jampolsky