Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes… — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As a fight fan, anybody who beat the No. 1 contender should fight for the belt, right? That's obvious. — Marlon Vera Copy Share Image
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war,… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
