We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure,… — Horace Copy Share Image
Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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