To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“One of the keys to being extraordinary is knowing what rules to follow and what rules to break. Outside the rules of… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable but rather what is impossible. And… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself -… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism… — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
There's the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it's all made of chrome and leather. And then there's… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“Tea with milk and sugar is so ordinary. We want to see a change, feel the necessity to bring colours other than… — Anuradha Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously… — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else.… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over.… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction,… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the… — Andy Couturier Copy Share Image