What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is… — Emile Argand Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy.… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I'm conflicted. On one hand, I don't want to say that because you were a man and now you're a woman, you… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image