For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
However, I believe that large groups make markets, so serving the needs of large groups is a simple approach to success in… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
Physical heat sometimes accompanies the filling of the Spirit and people experience it in their hands or some other part of their… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
pay attention to what I eat and to how I balance that with physical and mental exercise. The same way I want… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything. — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
We're filling a big universe [in Doctor Strange], and so the look and the sort of plasticity of us is really important… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image