When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
IBM has had a long partnership with Siebel, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft, so from a partner perspective, this is a good move… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post — Martin Tyler Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need… — William Law Copy Share Image
The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on… — Andre Ward Copy Share Image
