I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better… — Lyn St. James Copy Share Image
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think it was really crucial that the actress was age appropriate. There are films, such as An Education, where that wasn't… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money… — T. J. Rodgers Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy? — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be. — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
