...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and… — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I remember when I was younger and seeing guys like The Rock cut these promos telling the world how terrible they are.… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
Usually I try to represent my community and my culture the best that I can, but I go about every day just… — Al Horford Copy Share Image
The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying… — Tim Minear Copy Share Image
Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses,… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I became an India player in January 2009 and was therefore paid Rs 40 lakhs. However, in my contract, my category continued… — Ravindra Jadeja Copy Share Image
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand… — James Agate Copy Share Image
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I… — Clinton Sparks Copy Share Image
Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image