Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget,… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures,… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living… — Heinrich Zimmer Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
