Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take… — Angela Elwell Hunt Copy Share Image
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama]… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The prehuman creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind… Humanization… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image