Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown… — Augustus Pitt Rivers Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The past is like a broken mirror— you don’t remember but fleeting glimpses of it, sparse moments over many years, all combined… — Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi Copy Share Image
Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh… — Dambudzo Marechera Copy Share Image
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything,… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I'd left behind. If I left something in every city… — Xuan Juliana Wang Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
This word 'individual' is beautiful; it means indivisible. Right now as you are, you are divided. You are only many fragments clinging… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw… — James McCudden Copy Share Image
