We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree… — Brien McMahon Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can microwave a Pop Tart. That just blew me away that you could do that. How long does it take to… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of… — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that?… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny… — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The marriage rate has hit an all-time low, with 1 in 5 adults over 25 having never been married. In fact, an… — Jimmy Little Copy Share Image
Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image