Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled… — David Cross Copy Share Image
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing,… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image