It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants, — Malcolm Wells Copy Share Image
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name… — Lincoln Ellsworth Copy Share Image
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see"… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
