Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining"… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met. It's almost as… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my… — Thomas Sangster Copy Share Image
I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving,… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
People always say, "What do you want to do next, what kind of movie do you want to do next?" And I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they… — William Greider Copy Share Image
When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself.… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
On my Nickelodeon shows - 'Victorious' is my seventh show for the channel - there's this same distinct comedic voice that goes… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine.… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that,… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are… — Edith Evans Copy Share Image
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where… — Ewen Bremner Copy Share Image