Thickets Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable…
— Ivars Peterson
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Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular…
— Ferdinand Mount
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The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off…
— Elspeth Huxley
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The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now…
— Ben Brantley
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The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,…
— James Bryant Conant
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There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets…
— Robert Bridges
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The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,…
— John Muir
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Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap…
— Jerry Saltz
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From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
— Walter de La Mare
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Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these…
— Parker J. Palmer
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In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown,…
— Saul Bellow
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable…
— Ivars Peterson
Who Wrote These Thickets Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Thickets Quotes as follows: