Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
The sheer scale at which one is able to create change as elected representatives is unmatched. — Atishi Copy Share Image
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly… — John A. Hobson Copy Share Image
To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your… — Hume Cronyn Copy Share Image
First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often… — Barry Richards Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
