I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life...Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only d...
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flo...
..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-mean...
Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were ...
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature--the qualities of space and time--in new perceptual and material for...
Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we lin...
You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
