All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our nature is intelligent. In fact, everything is intelligent. Intelligence for me is information. Information is intelligence. And then there is information… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
Dont commit to making less mistakes; commit to making more of them. Fail forward. Mistakes in life are as certain as sunsets… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail… — John C. McAdams Copy Share Image
We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They… — Hersh Shefrin Copy Share Image
Its crazy how you always end up where youre meant to be how even the most tragic and stressful situations eventually teach… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom"… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
You may be asking yourself, 'Am I the right type of person to go to this rally?' The fact that you would… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Attention spans are shrinking on a daily basis, and it's getting harder to make an impression that lasts. So the fact that… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There are a lot of dream roles that I couldn't do, like James Bond and Indiana Jones; I'd never get a look… — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
