The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased… No Agent Orange or steel… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked… — Alan Dale Copy Share Image
If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player… — Alan Pardew Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and… — Moby Copy Share Image
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I… — Amanda Righetti Copy Share Image
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business:… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made… — John Romaniello Copy Share Image
There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image