Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that… — Ellen Orleans Copy Share Image
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive,… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing,… — Bruce Fife Copy Share Image