It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Closing his eyes again, standing there, glass in hand, he thought for a minute with a freezing detached almost amused calm of… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength?… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It was a face that said, “Fuck the world,” but said it reluctantly, and tonelessly, and then apologized, said “Sorry,” but said… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No… — John Caples Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Everything intellectual and transcendent is joined together in painting by the uninterrupted labour of the eyes. Each shade of a flower, a… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“The truth is that he (Casanova) had ceased subtly to be an adventurer to become a noisy scoundrel, or if that is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Eric Roberts, for all the criticism he gets, is at least having fun with the script. His decision to devour large swaths… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
“Having committed this to memory, he reflected how deluded he’d been to believe he had left his past behind and become a… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was very proud to hear that my friend Andre Johnson was like, 'Man, I'm going back to school.' I was so… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
