Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[Coining the phrase "test of significance"] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My real first job was delivering newspapers with I was 15. I would ride my bike around and chuck papers at people's… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget,… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free. — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image