Children Quote by John Ashbery

“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.”

— Marilyn Frye

“Where he saw a page of words, his friend saw the field of hesitations, black holes, and possibilities between the words. Where his friend…

— Nicole Krauss

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Knowing that I could be painfully wrong and curiosity about why other smart people saw things differently prompted me to look at things through…

— Ray Dalio

“Tried to figure a logic of it, but the dots had collapsed like marbles and that had been good”

— Steve Merrick

“And there in the middle, high above Prechistensky Boulevard, amidst a scattering of stars on every side but catching the eye through its closeness…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Eventually, a governess realized I needed spectacles. When I first put them on my face, I can’t even tell you . . . it…

— Tessa Dare

“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“With that, everything was suddenly thrown into greater relief, a kind of super three-dimensionality that enhanced the presence and realness of everything in my…

— James Redfield

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now…

— Ernest Rutherford

“You'd think hindsight would do us some good But all it does sometimes Is add glass to the kaleidoscope”

— J.D. Estrada