People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“There was another pause as Quentin stared at him, and then he said quietly, "It didn't happen up there. What happened twenty… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
“I page through the book, my heart thumping in my chest as I’m brought back to him, to Mayson Holt, the boy… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it’s hard to believe that it didn’t give up… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago. — David Campese Copy Share Image
Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
“His voice was of a lower pitch and somewhat gravely, very much like the lead singer in a band that called themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human diseases are the same as they were a thousand years ago, but doctors have given them more expensive names. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t… — Kyoichi Katayama Copy Share Image
It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“I was extremely shy of approaching my hero but he, as I found out, was sorely in need of company. By then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
“Down an alley a washing woman has set out laundry in pans near the rubble of an old high-rise. Another is washing… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Life to the trees sets a pattern in the sky like lion and Goliath did in dinosaur time with the ocean gliding… — Alisha Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Well, take e-mail for example. People don’t write to each other anymore, do they? Once my generation’s gone, the written letter will… — Steve Robinson Copy Share Image
I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years… — JoJo Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago the ancients had an advanced mathematical understanding of universe that is revealed in many sources. There is a… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
“Brad, I first saw you about twenty-five years ago at a Frontrunner's run around Silver Lake reservoir. I thought you were drop-dead… — George Takei Copy Share Image
20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career… — Mary T. Barra Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t appreciate just how peaceful an era we live in. None of us was alive a thousand years ago, so… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus, a man of love, a man of strength. What a man was two thousand… — Live (Band Copy Share Image
But Harry . . . even if we had met and married three years ago, you’d still say it wasn’t enough time.”… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Friends call me Brie. You may call me Ms. Stewart.” “Stewart? Not Prime?” She shrugged. “I legally changed my last name to… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
“College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it’s… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
Years ago I began to realize that any genome can make any other, practically. Barbara McClintock, 1980 — Barbara McClintock Copy Share Image
“There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest. — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
