Quotation Karma Quotes

#1. The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.

William Whewell

#2. The hardest part of training a painter is showing him how to introduce emotion into his work,

Robyn Carr

#3. Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Bruno Bettelheim

#4. A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.

Dwight L. Moody

#5. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Joseph Campbell

#6. The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

Scott Turow

#7. But who discovered it? Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is the deduction of reason. But loving one's neighbor reason could never discover, because it's irrational.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. She'd neglected makeup entirely, and those damn black eyes lent her the appearance of a raccoon. A raccoon that had gotten hit in the face. After a lifetime of poor nutrition. The silence was broken only by the humming of the lift, and it felt conspicuous.

Daniel O'Malley

#9. It can seem as if the single season of life is going to drag on forever and ever.

Mandy Hale

#10. You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

Patricia Briggs

#11. Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Josh Billings

#12. Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#13. Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

Katarina Witt