The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“there's something wrong with my ears I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes” — Henry Hoke Copy Share Image
A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool,… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected—for better and… — Laurie A. Helgoe Copy Share Image
In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image