From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative.… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application… — George Polya Copy Share Image
That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image