My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“There's no way that can be the river," Rhiow said. "Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central--" Saash said. "It's backward," Rhiow snapped,… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
“Bull spots us and gives his two-thumbs salute, trotting backwards. Imm-pressive! All those years of practice are starting to pay off -… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“You can be okay here, Tash. If you’re getting tangled up in history, then you need to turn around, babe. You’re looking… — Susan Fanetti Copy Share Image
I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get… — Kyle Gallner Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t understand—what I suddenly realized now—was that if I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
Ken Griffey changed the game, but he also represented pop culture and the youth - how he wore his hat backwards, how… — Russell Wilson Copy Share Image
I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
“We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
As a consequence, I think of the idea of 'common practice' at any time as something that can only be seen by… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax;… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
