In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly… — Josef Sudek Copy Share Image
I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned… — Riane Eisler 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
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing… — Nicky Ryan Copy Share Image
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme:… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years.… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
