One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as… — Joanne Froggatt Copy Share Image
If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The act is in itself a lie. You're faking something. The girl is lying there, she's pretending that she doesn't know the… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
When I was 16 was just thinking about the future and - it sounds so stupid - but what my goal was… — Christian Madsen Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You know, when I think about what I'm doing, what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease… — Freddie Prinze, Jr Copy Share Image
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in… — Roger Gracie Copy Share Image
The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray… — Yevgeny Vakhtangov Copy Share Image
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its… — John Walford Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image