Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory… — William James Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
