All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder,… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons:… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realise… — Jarvis Cocker 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
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
Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways,… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
I wasn't handsome. I didn't have good clothes. I used to wonder why people would hire me when they could get college… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Wonder Woman' is thinking about me. It's thinking about my pleasure, about my sisters, about the history of cinema and women's representation.… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image