The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all.… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner… — Timothy O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses… — Henry Earl Singleton Copy Share Image
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image