Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have… — Frank Woolley Copy Share Image
I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares,… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Jesus told his followers not to pray in the public square 'as the hypocrites' do, but rather 'enter into thy closet, and… — Ron Barrier Copy Share Image
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image