We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me'… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors —… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
