The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea,… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became… — George Will Copy Share Image
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy… — Kimiko Glenn Copy Share Image
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about… — David Koepp Copy Share Image
