#verse

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #verse




I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?


Richard Dawkins


#around #big #big enough #brain #come

For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.


Morarji Desai


#because #believe #clearly #come #creator

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.


William Blake


#eternal world #faint #imagination #real #shadow

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.


Philip Warren Anderson


#does #everything #fundamental #fundamental laws #imply

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.


Honore de Balzac


#husband #lover #man #silent

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.


James A. Baldwin


#control #describing #every #function #language

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.


Lynn Abbey


#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.


John Adams


#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.


Christopher Alexander


#buildings #close #contain #degree #dreams

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.


Kevin J. Anderson


#come #fact #hey #humans #kind