Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home,… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
It takes a village to earn a spot representing your country, and I know that every single person who helped me get… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our village is very small, so I wasn't surprised when I heard some negative comments from my neighbours on my interest in… — Hima Das Copy Share Image
The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Here, there was an air of a country village. An apricot-colored cat sat on top of a fence, bathing himself in the… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
“Here was the place I usually found myself in, Grenelle replied. It wouldn't take long to lose its excitement. There was the… — C.S. Richardson Copy Share Image
It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.'… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I was a non-Congress chief minister, we distributed surplus wheat among labourers. Later, when we visited a village, I… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image