The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The new shift in thinking is the gateway to human transformation. And because of the sheer number of people involved in this… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed.… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier. — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get… — Betty Hill Copy Share Image
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
