My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people… — RZA Copy Share Image
The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing… — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten… — Dontrelle Willis Copy Share Image
Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were… — Aly Michalka Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Up! you bag of bones!" "Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream… You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! "She's awake!! North said,… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Parents today are self-absorbed. They don't care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline,… — GloZell Copy Share Image
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's… — Jonathan S. Tobin Copy Share Image
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