In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our… — David L. Bazelon Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
I’m familiar with a lot of guys, hang out with those guys. A couple of my teammates actually went to Florida, so… — Joanna Noelle Levesque Copy Share Image
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean -… — Jon Bowermaster Copy Share Image
I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it.… — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just… — John Bartlett Copy Share Image
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them.… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
