When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean -… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and… — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we… — John Green Copy Share Image
A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I've always been someone who's extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I'm not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all… — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it… — Robin Parrish Copy Share Image
The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image