What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest,… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us.… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .]… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — John Adams Copy Share Image
For instance, I'm in Beverly Hills right now at a hotel. I told myself, "Man, it's so beautiful out here. If I… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning… — John Hench Copy Share Image
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who… — Carrie Ann Inaba Copy Share Image
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli,… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
