We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie 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
What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to… — Beah Richards Copy Share Image
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
