How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2)… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles… — Bernard Parmegiani Copy Share Image
Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena;… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image