I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it,… — Sunny Murray Copy Share Image
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this… — Robert Platt Copy Share Image
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which… — Paul Foster Case Copy Share Image
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
