my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently,… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative.… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It… — Eugene Puryear Copy Share Image
It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust.… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image