The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of… — Hsu Yun Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Profundity fails me.” Father Ramon's gaze rested on Loup. “And perhaps that is fitting, since words have never been your strong suit,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as… — Dan Winters Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from,… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
