Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Some in the outside world might call our traumas trivial. Were you gang-raped? Sold into slavery? Imprisoned in a concentration camp? Did… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“To awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to begin to see oneself and one’s group the way… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on; And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly. That’s… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Because people with a disembodied structure often have no bodily sensation, they also cannot sense where they begin and end, which reflects… — Elliot Greene Copy Share Image
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, 'I don't need this. I have money; I have fame;… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — Booker Washington; T. 8vo Copy Share Image
“Nature of the Desire for Change: There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Superimposed on the hierarchical framework of defined components of a cell there is another layer. This second layer is highly flexible and… — Dennis Bray Copy Share Image
“His teeth began to chatter. God All-Mighty! he thought, why haven't I realized it all these years? All these years I've gone… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You'll be sorry some day. Why don't you ever understand what I'm trying to tell you: it's with your six sense that… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When you look at someone on a bus who is sobbing or even just sitting there dejectedly, you see them differently than… — Kathryn Vercillo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you need to completely close yourself off from the outside world and enrich your inner world by reading and thinking because… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her claim in… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
Being an actor is fantastic because you get to live your dreams and all of that, but I always think it's slightly… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
Being a stunt girl is very much my comfort zone, so I had to remove the comfort zone to step fully into… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“The first time I goofed out on Heroin was 1985. It was like sinking into a sea of warm marmalade. And once… — U.V. Ray Copy Share Image
“Dissatisfaction is an energy frequency aimed entirely at the future. When not agitated, this Gene Key manifests its natural state — that… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image
“...she is living on the outskirts of a precious world that is slipping away. On the other side of this window, events… — Nicholas Dickner Copy Share Image
Once you have some sort of reputation in the outside world, they will try to woo you. They will say, "Won't you… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear,… — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a… — Peter van der Linden Copy Share Image
“With the outside world damp and grey, she had the perfect excuse to hide herself away at the cottage again—except this time,… — Melody Grace Copy Share Image
“As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable,… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
