Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup, — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.... — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it… — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I don't even know of a room that doesn't have a flat-screen TV in it. These are things that just come in… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them,… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
