It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the… — William James Copy Share Image
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered,… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They… — Gail Saltz Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
If you want success badly enough, you must weigh each thought, action, and experience. The reward you reap will be the knowledge… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of… — Carl Magnusson Copy Share Image
But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we… — Dannii Minogue Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
