My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there… — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are… — Gene Sperling Copy Share Image
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Forgiveness and the release of the past open the creative flow of life, supporting all levels of mind, heart, body, emotion, and… — Jamie Sams Copy Share Image
The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We're definitely still interested in the Avatar/Korra universe and fantastical world building in general, but I think many of the core themes… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble.… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to.… — Rick Poynor Copy Share Image
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
Before I was married, before I was with my wife, I was traveling with Ric Flair and women were everywhere. It was… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
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