If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child… — Dorothy Moore Copy Share Image
I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably,… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said… — Eleanor Porter Copy Share Image
Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll… — Ken Ludwig Copy Share Image
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
