rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano. — Dorothy Cannell Copy Share Image
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales;… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
