Quotes of: Martin-luther-king-jr Keyword

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

The Library at Night

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

The Library at Night

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

The Library at Night

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

The Library at Night

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

The Library at Night

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

The Library at Night

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

Principles of Geology

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Max Muller

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

Nate Silver

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

Robert Fitzgerald

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

Robert Fitzgerald

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

Sibel Edmonds

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

Sibel Edmonds

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

Sibel Edmonds