There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Can’t you imagine? Haven’t you told her about the place enough?” He tried the handle again, as if that could change anything.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I would never want to pass a law limiting freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to condone statements that… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I don't know why I've always loved makeup so much. It helps me get ready for my day and the stage. It… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half… — Shaan Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering… The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful -… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls).… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between… — Margaret Edson Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
