Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I'm a big vinyl listener, I'm a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi… — Butch Walker Copy Share Image
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with… — Andrea Palladio Copy Share Image
Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to… — David Filo Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion.… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I… — Gary Neville Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image