“It’s a big shift. I don’t know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week… — Leisel Jones Copy Share Image
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved -… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All of my life I've been met with shock and disbelief if I've ever come out with anything remotely smart, as if… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is… — Krystelle Bamford Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock -… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set,… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode,… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“What depresses you most?” I ask. “Tedium. Tedium is far more dangerous than shock. I see no point to words that cower… — Elaine Ambrose Copy Share Image
When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone.… — Henry Allingham Copy Share Image
My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I… — Chris Moneymaker Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites.… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
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