“We are surrounded by miracles too common to notice. Think of the intricate patterns on a butterfly’s wing... or the way a… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
Lawyers know that certain witnesses are simply not going to be cooperative and are not going to answer the questions. And what… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on… — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.… — William Martin Copy Share Image
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore. "… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
I think some people are not interesting to themselves. They're the sad, resigned folk. When people call themselves ordinary - "I'm just… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don't have a clear payoff.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“Looking on the bright side, let us remind ourselves of what has happened in the wake of earlier demystifications. We find no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown,… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We live in a culture of quick fixes. We want to feel better and we want to feel better now. I believe… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
