What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Accusations like conspiracy theories, words like disinformation and misinformation, these aren't words that are meant to guide you as to how much… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
George Clooney, who is a moron, came here to Cannes and gave a press conference saying, 'Under no circumstances will Trump ever… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words,… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hour after hour of no words. Would… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review.… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the nation, where the first words of the Declaration of Independence were drafted, where our Constitution was… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
All you have to do is respect me. Use the right words. If you don't consider me a woman, then use trans… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
The last Company Flow reunion show in New York City was pretty insane. Everybody knew all the words to every song; everybody… — El-P Copy Share Image
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I love bright words, words up and singing early; Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing; Warm lazy words, white… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
“He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard… — Filippo Brunelleschi Copy Share Image
I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make… — Michael Chiesa Copy Share Image
“Daniel." He looked up. "El-la.I was wondering if you'd catch me." He offered me a cigarette. I gave him a shame-on-you look;he… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words,… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
