But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's… — Dayna Devon Copy Share Image
Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton… — Alan King Copy Share Image
I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
