Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There's less mystery in the sea than there is in fresh water. If you look at television there's lots of documentaries on… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“There is something in this world which no one has ever seen. It is soft and sweet. If it is spotted, I'm… — Yuyuko Takemiya Copy Share Image
What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Alas, God's poor ministers are just as much in the dark as we are. You must believe like old women believe, the… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
It's a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive,… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“The fall of dusk upon the Egyptian scene is an unforgettable event, an event of unearthly beauty. Everything is transformed in colour… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Put it in terms of the not-too-serious, if you like. Who got into that locked room? And how was it done? And… — Carter Dickson Copy Share Image
This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image