My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been… — Matt Lanter Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I mean, like the rest of America, I wasn't really into politics until Obama went into office, so it's all kind of… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches.… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've… — Juanes Copy Share Image
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them.… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink.… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we… — Ali Shirazinia Copy Share Image
No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What interests you most is our present condition: it is what we would have desired, thorny and difficult, but it is made… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image