I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful… — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's… — Tadanobu Asano Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image