Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And… — Jessica St. Clair Copy Share Image
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it.… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers;… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying,… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Im aware that sometimes if youre trying to be somebody else, you end up saying words that just dont sound like your… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened -… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what… — Francis George Copy Share Image
I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice answering, "CD… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look…they took my… — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi."… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image