We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't… — Bono Copy Share Image
I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave… — Susan Strasberg Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared… — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making. — Max Irons Copy Share Image
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want… — Yanni Copy Share Image
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process… — Richard Willstatter Copy Share Image
I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day.… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little… — John Scarne Copy Share Image
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tell them about how you’re never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there’s always that one little piece inside… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image