It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
That's exactly how I felt. So getting to suddenly know this young [princess] Margaret, who had this extraordinary life - it was… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote… — Brendan O'Carroll Copy Share Image
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time… — Leonard Hayflick Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves. — Daniel Wildenstein Copy Share Image
Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA,… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest,… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing. — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background. — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing... — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that… — George Will Copy Share Image
