Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ...… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's awful to have a depression, but it's a great thing to have a depression mentality because it means that we are… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women,… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look… — Wilford Brimley Copy Share Image
Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in… — Jimmy Kimmel Copy Share Image
I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under… — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges.… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
If you look at Michigan generally speaking. You look at the big auto plants that are being built in Mexico and you… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
