I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on.… — Cindy Klassen Copy Share Image
'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was… — Drake Copy Share Image
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely… — Hendrik Tennekes Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and… — Lewis Strauss Copy Share Image
The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute.… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up… — Johan Cruijff Copy Share Image
The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, the next few minutes would be the most hellishly exciting in my life. Grinding pain and killer fatigue waited… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is… — Enele Sopoaga Copy Share Image