The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator.… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance… — Ben Utecht Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image