Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
“When you learn to let go of the details you can’t control, the amount of time and energy you’ll be able to… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a… — Mark Zupan Copy Share Image
At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the… — Michele Montas Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive.… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat?… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man… — Takeda Shingen Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There's always time. . .to own up to things you're ashamed of, to change them. There's always time to start. And I… — Peter Danielson Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Donald Trump pulled off an amazing political feat. He deserves tremendous credit for that. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
