I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to. — Harry Hershfield Copy Share Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who… — Carol Bartz Copy Share Image
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
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