This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them… — Juliet Aubrey Copy Share Image
Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can't control.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth;… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
When you're dead, you're dead. I believe in shapes - you're not conscious of it, but you're like a tree that grows… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see… — Holland Roden Copy Share Image
I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The expression of our truth is an ancient action through which we actually discover our place in the world; the true shape… — John Earle Copy Share Image
The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people,… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
