I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson,… — Lou Lumenick Copy Share Image
I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough, if you search Twitter, you'd see I have been saying this for 3-plus years now. I cannot believe we are… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my… — Shelley Morrison Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
