Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
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For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Money...Materials...Looks.. All of those things fade. You entered this world with nothing and you will leave this world with nothing. So instead… — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I would just say that I could share what served me, which was trying to find the best material that I could… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree… Whereas when buildings are of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast… — Gerry McGovern Copy Share Image
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have… — T.I Copy Share Image
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
