Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
The new Bournville College is not only a magnificent building and a great landmark but a source of pride for Longbridge and… — Waqar Azmi Copy Share Image
This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there,… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
There are moments in my life when I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing exactly what I’m supposed… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it — Drake Copy Share Image
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are… — Greg Nickels Copy Share Image
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
