I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only be reached by combing all this evidence. ....
...there was a shortage of soft furnishings and I’m sorry to say I was forced to use hard liquor.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.
My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
