I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on -… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human… — Jenna Coleman Copy Share Image
My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind… — Ibrahim Hooper Copy Share Image
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?'… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club… — Adrian Belew Copy Share Image
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really… — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that… — Asa Baber Copy Share Image
Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
