Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the… — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do? — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not.… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world. — Eglantyne Jebb Copy Share Image
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it.… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
