We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I would go to the office to visit my father [Pablo Escobar] and regardless of who he was meeting, he would drop… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
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