'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting. We… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those… — Lauren Potter Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past,… — Drake Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over.… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image