The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities — Cesare Lombroso Copy Share Image
Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils. Love means to step away from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe… — Lew Welch Copy Share Image
While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it! — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image