More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones Copy Share Image
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities. — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet… — Jeffrey Skilling Copy Share Image
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know… — Max Black Copy Share Image
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
