It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
“As she climbed a ladder and started boarding up the smashed front windows, Helen realized that some things stay a little bit… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
