As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
There are a thousand reasons for missing one of your kids' firsts. Some moms may have just been in another room making… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain.… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals… — John Green Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The bigger the ‘flat’ [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the ‘flat’ is worth six hundred thousand, then he has… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my… — Casey James Copy Share Image
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way,… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in… — Wilt Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans,… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image