I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just… — Jade Puget Copy Share Image
I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may… — Louise Fresco Copy Share Image
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of… — E. J. Banfield Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. — Eminem Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
