Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never… — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we… — John Cage Copy Share Image
No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Things would hurt me in a big way because I didn't seem to have a very thick layer of skin, but this… — Missy Higgins Copy Share Image
Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with… — Marilyn Sokol Copy Share Image
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own.… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
