Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Edward Abbey

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
Lawrence Lessig

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
Gustave Meyrink

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Mason Cooley

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
Alphonso Jackson

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Walter Lord

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
Nicholas Johnson

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson Howe

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
Rick Wright

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Denis Diderot

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac