When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“His eyes did not do anything that shock normally describes. No snapping, no slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical… — Paolo Di Canio Copy Share Image
When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
“There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
“Stripped of context, the physical sensations exploded: the surprising shock of heat from that skin-to-skin grip; the soft hiss of the bracelets… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“You never told me his name," the boy says. Time skips a beat, pauses, breathes out. She nuzzles her face against the… — C.G. Drews Copy Share Image
The most extreme among the Brexiters are convinced they can ride the chaos and deploy the 'shock doctrine' to remake the nation… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
