Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working… — Gillian Apps Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. — Dave McPherson Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
