Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.
Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.
The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God
I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you. ' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on the page. Stolen Magic has to be one of the most delightful reads of the year, a witty, finely crafted tale that enchants from beginning to end. As always, Putney's intelligent wordsmithery, scholarship, eye for detail, and ability to bring to life irresistible characters add up to enjoyment on every page. Fast-moving and fun!
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.