16915 Quotes

#1. Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

Grant-Lee Phillips

#2. I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

Howard Aiken

#3. Such insignificant differences as a few hundred years here or there were the motive for long, long controversies, both public and academic, which almost always resulted in the violent breakup of personal relationships and even in mortal enmities.

Jose Saramago

#4. The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Walter Pater

#5. It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

Thomas Kuhn

#6. I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.

Sarah Dessen

#7. For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies.

John Kasich

#8. The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Adam Phillips

#9. Aunt Loretta doesn't look like herself, but she doesn't look broken.

Heidi W. Durrow

#10. We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

George W. Bush

#11. And when he became conscious of a human figure dark against the silver stream, sitting on a large boulder and looking rather like a large bird, it was perhaps with some of the premonitions proper to a man who meets the strangest friendship of his life.

G.K. Chesterton