Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses.… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these… — William Atherton Copy Share Image
“Monotony One monotonous day follows another monotonous day, without change. The same things happen, then happen again. The same moments approach, then… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
