I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Even when I lived in Chicago and I didn't have any family there, I would just go like I would be a… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in… — Blake Mills Copy Share Image
As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully!… — Kabir Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Every instance of this stuff, from this tax return business to the illegality. You know who is actually breaking the law in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it."… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appeared before Congress. Do you think they even bothered swearing him in? Now he is denying he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than… — John Peterman Copy Share Image
Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't get a lot of "Hey, Harvard!" stuff. I think a lot of people who don't know me would be surprised… — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the… — Thomas Parsons Copy Share Image
I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
If I don't take care of myself and be kind to myself, then I can't take care of anyone else. I think… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful.… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?"… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image