The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder,… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon. — James Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it… — William James Copy Share Image
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or… — Kalki Krishnamurthy Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be… — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,'… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon –… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
