The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I take great solace in the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote. Hillary Clinton got over 2.5 million more votes… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
ISIS is not Islam. No, I'm not saying that. The government says that. The left, the media says it. ISIS is not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I… — David Bowick Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous,… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Fortunately in Libya, there's only a few cities on the coast, because most of Libya is a desert. The fact of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it." I will tell you this.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Males do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A Jew remains a Jew. Assimilalation is impossible, because a Jew cannot change his national character. Whatever he does, he is a… — Ludwig Lewisohn Copy Share Image
When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image