Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Playing those one-dimensional characters is actually really difficult because you're not dealing with somebody you would ever really know. I don't think… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to… — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets,… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to… — Wendy Buonaventura Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of -… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my… — Louise Bernikow Copy Share Image
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image