I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
The way Spain has now behaved in Catalonia, after the referendum, is a total disgrace. If this continues, it will all reach… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions… — Steve Gaynor Copy Share Image
Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy but you put your money up and take out a little every week. You put yourself on a… — Rakim Copy Share Image
After finals and winter break...after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can… — George Will Copy Share Image
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him… — Damon Wayans, Jr Copy Share Image
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
That's definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'll call if I break a leg or get eaten by a bear." "Play like a rock." "Now?" "No, if a bear… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for… — Jack White Copy Share Image
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream… — Sheridan Morley Copy Share Image
I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?"… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
Master's degree in journalism served several purposes. It helped me to break down and understand scripts. And the discipline of getting my… — Regina Hall Copy Share Image
