There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I know most Americans don't have this luxury, but we are in Los Angeles and are lucky enough to be able to… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It’s hard to say. I don’t want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn’t have imagined the path… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people… — Kang Chol-hwan Copy Share Image
Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family… — Ali Landry Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No… — Joe Gold Copy Share Image
50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
