“To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.” TryingWellsStillsMomentsEyeSpiritFlowIndependentGreenCommittedAvailableWitHillsLiftsHis EyesValleysHostileResidentsRidgesSkylines Author:Wallace Stegner
“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.” NeedsLooksLongSoulMomentsCoursesWiseSourceImportanceMadnessWitClarityObservationExplanationNecksLengthFloodCompetingBrevityConjectureGiraffePoloniusRare MomentsMoments Of Clarity Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.” MomentsAgeGeniusWit Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.” MomentsEffortPoetExcellenceWitPainterMelancholyDoubtedRaphaelDespondency Author:Charles Caleb Colton