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
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part,… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
“I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability.… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
Hope is one leg of a three-legged stool, together with faith and charity. These three stabilize our lives regardless of the rough… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord… — David Copy Share Image
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“If you draw the full length of the blade through the fish in one gentle sweep, the resulting cross section is smooth… — Tetsu Kariya Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of… — Arthur Koestler 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
