This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
