The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color.… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders:… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
