Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer. — Thomas S. Tait Copy Share Image
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I didn't even have to be a big fan of someone to enjoy hearing them speak. I remember when Nikki Giovanni came… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and… — Nyanaponika Thera Copy Share Image
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am not a stickler for Indian food, but by the third day or so I start looking for something familiar to… — Shaan Copy Share Image
Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image