I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
“I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough...… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive? — Stephanie Miller Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
