To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family… — Melinda Blau Copy Share Image
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music,… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.There is no doubt… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image