“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to… — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is gained by gathering data, whereas, Wisdom is earned by going through actual… — Master Jin Kwon Copy Share Image
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
“Next to this central belief which,while I was reading, would be constantly reaching out from my inner self to the outer world,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me… — Ibn al-Arabi Copy Share Image
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to… — Winnie Holzman Copy Share Image
“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The only times I get uncomfortable is when people are looking into my actual life, just because, like anybody, there's tons of… — Alex G Copy Share Image
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
“Consider this an honest look at falling in love, loving yourself, and being loved in the social media age. It’s a guide… — Nev Schulman Copy Share Image
“The actual lifespan of a thought is very short…unless you believe it, trust it, or take direction from it.. Then it can… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
