Henry David Thoreau Quotes
In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.
Henry David Thoreau
Quotes to Explore
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
Gavid Hood
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
Victoria Pendleton
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
Earle Brown
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
Patrick Dempsey
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Marat Safin
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
John Maynard Keynes
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.
Wayne Hays
In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.
Henry David Thoreau