We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter… — Michael J. Jackson Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on… — Genie Francis Copy Share Image
When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps… — Rick Barry Copy Share Image
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same. She can switch… — Adepero Oduye Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course,… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back… — Tad Devine Copy Share Image
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or… — James Whistler Copy Share Image