The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital,… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
I actually challenged The Theosophical Society on their concept of planes of reality. I said, "What you're doing is, you're stacking two-dimensional… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as… — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image