The level of musicianship in New York is the highest in the world. It's tough to get into. You start gigging making… — Jose James Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair....… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I thought 'Gone Baby Gone' was really modern in showing a couple going on an adventure. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced. — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life. — danah boyd Copy Share Image
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice. — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some… — Richard Pitcairn Copy Share Image
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
