Quotes of: Left-field Keyword

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Patch Adams

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

Peta Wilson

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the ...

Lynda Resnick

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Killosophy

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Killosophy

To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

Rapture Fever: Why Dispensationalism Is Paralyzed

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.

Status Anxiety

She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies.

Mrs. Dalloway

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

Murder At Ebbets Field

Night is the sleep of seven wax moths Dawn is the singing of five mermaids Noon is the scratching of three field mice Dusk is the shadow of a crow

Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

Life should be lined with love. A stomach should also be lined. So should football fields.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

The Songlines

Sales is the art of canvasing a field, framing a problem, and painting a solution. But you can’t go Van Gogh on a deal. You’ve got to use both your ears.

Sleepwalking is restercise

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

They passed the point where they'd made their previous retreat, but this time felt no urgency or fear. For some reason the dubious energy field was gone.

A Psilent Place Below

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

Please Look After Mom