A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it deconstructively. That's the most… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come… — Joe Kelley Copy Share Image
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
