Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl.… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
I used to go to the gym with one of my best friends, and we seemed to have the same conversation over… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
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The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
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“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The insanity has to stop...It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
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“want to spend an hour talking and getting into the good stuff. I don’t have a lot of patience for small talk.… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
What I like is having a conversation that gets you on the right page. And, if that means having conversations in lieu… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday."… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I]… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
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Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Individuals are fine once you get to know them, especially if they're interesting in conversation or have large, sumptuous breasts, but I… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
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