Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch. — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
