You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.… — Jahangir Khan Copy Share Image
If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can't control.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather… — Henry Kaufman Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It's amazing the footprint WWE has around the globe. When you look at the scope of the amount of live events they… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains… — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Facebook has revolutionized social games, as friends can see your points, achievements and in game events. — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said,… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
