November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
From Portland's ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon's Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our… — Ted Wheeler 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
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
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
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
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
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
