What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I love playing characters that go to extreme places, and I love to explore different kinds of psychological landscapes, so it is… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift… — Enya Copy Share Image
“Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts… — David Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems… — William Montagu-Pollock Copy Share Image
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming… — Hozier Copy Share Image
When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations… I… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image