6350 Quotes & Sayings

This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces. — Kenneth Clark

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. — Erich Maria Remarque

My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it. These words dance together. 'Interest' is another holy word and drives 'memory'. Combine them and you have learning. — Richard Saul Wurman

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. — Joanna Russ

At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples. — Alex Honnold

We all want things that can never happen, and even when we know they're not going to become reality, we keep on wanting them. — Mira Grant

The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own .45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter. — Patrick Bedard

It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then. — Josephine Tey

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now. — William Gibson

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything. — Chad Smith

When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness. — Dorothy Gilman