All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
At the very instant that you think, "I am happy," a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died'… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
A lot of people try to use sarcasm to flirt, and it tends not to read well. Most people who are successful… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image