When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The… — James Salter Copy Share Image
You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension. — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried,… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
