...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...("… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of Instagram poets - who are also, to be fair, Tumblr poets and Pinterest poets - has been one of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work.… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes… — Francesca Jackson Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30? — Rachel Bilson Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Japanese children have infinitely more developed bodies than those in the West. From the age of two, a child learns to sit… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Typically in animation, the characters exist in a kind of stasis. Look at 'The Simpsons' - they never age, the baby never… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age… — Ram Kapoor Copy Share Image
“As the face of beauty grows dim with age, so gradually the brilliancy of youth fades from the pearl and the complexion… — Wallis Richard Cattelle Copy Share Image
Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
