(941 quotes found)
“The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.”
Janet Malcolm
“They pass through whirlpools, and deep woes do shun, who the event weigh, ere the action's done.”
John Webster
“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”
John Major
“The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.”
Daniel S. Greenberg
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - This is a somewhat new kind of religion”
Albert Einstein
“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.”
Tryon Edwards
“What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.”
Edward Tufte
“I feel safe in white because, deep down inside, I'm an angel.”
Sean Combs
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
