Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I don't mean to sound so disenchanted, but I will tell you what has been going on in our country in the… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect… — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
