But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me,… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under… — Oliver Joseph Lodge Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Wood pellet grilling could potentially have a lower risk of cancer when compared to other forms of grilling, as some people say… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
