At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do..

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of pa….

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each ful….

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and si….

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object..

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion..

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water..

Fear is the root of all courage..

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's….

A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is….

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots..

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract su….

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn….

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree..

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them..

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root..

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that s….

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time..

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy..

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz..

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the ….