As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules,… — Epicharmus of Kos Copy Share Image
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has… — T.I Copy Share Image
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I remember I used to go school with guys who couldn't afford notebooks, pens, paper: the necessary tools needed in order to… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kerala Police is the best law and order force and investigation agency in the country. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos, I’m an agent of chaos , and you know the… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of television serials in order to make ends meet. — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos. — George Peabody Copy Share Image
I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You can't have cutthroat competition when there's no one stopping you from actually cutting each other's throats. In order to build up… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
