A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars.… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s… — Louie Bellson Copy Share Image
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I get really bored really easily, so I'm a big believer and advocate of changing it up. One day, I'll do a… — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image