I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song,… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
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To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
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When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me,… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image