Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and… — Faith Hunter Copy Share Image
The only one that I have to go and see is Brooklyn. I was surprised to see it get the best picture… — Bun B Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, some of us have piercings and tattoos and dye our hair because we think it looks pretty, not… — Alex Bell Copy Share Image
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it.… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings.… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process… — Stephen K. Hayes Copy Share Image
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial… — Heather Chapple Copy Share Image
Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image