We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buyMontessori outfits that… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am… — Madonna Copy Share Image
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majorityis material. When these… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
We, too, were but dwellers onthe shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit,the wrecks of snails and cockles. Nevertheless,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sam Tostin: You know I spenta lot of years disliking women. But I don't dislike you. Major Hayward: Don't you? Sam Tostin:… — Stanley Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are certain thingsas, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three That I hate, but the thing thatI… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, othermen going to their jobs.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
But that his wife should be one of the performers, that she should be gazed at by a crowd as she tripped… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no artomitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses'… — Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Copy Share Image
You've always reminded me of a seagull, Jo. Strong and wild and fond of the wind and storms. And dreaming of flying… — Victor Heerman Copy Share Image
And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What brought them there so far from their home, Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam, What says the Clock in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. Weget through the Car Crash Agealive and cruise through our early twenties… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab's or the Indian's? When I think of the benefactors of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the people in government,rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser thanhe who has never left his owndoorstep, so a knowledge of… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
As we drew near to Old town Iasked Polis if he was not glad to get home again; but there was no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... as a result of generations of betrayal, it's nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what… — Sarah Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones, Small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families In mill-towns on dark mornings Life is… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Words are not (except in theirown little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them… — John Austin Copy Share Image
See the kind seed-receiving earth To every grain affords a birth: On her no showers unwelcome fall, Her willing womb retains 'em… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A lonely man is a lone some thing, a stone, a bone, a stick,a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, astooped figure sitting at… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Mine honesty and I begin to square. The loyalty well held to fools does make Our faith mere folly; yet he that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began tosketch the idea for a new machine on the back… — For The State Of New Jersey Copy Share Image
The magnanimous know verywell that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the strangerso it be done for love, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marching is when the pulse ofthe hero beats in unison with the pulse of Nature, and he steps to the measure of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image