We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed… — Tom Brewer Copy Share Image
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others. — Tom Metzger Copy Share Image
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions. — Les Paul Copy Share Image
My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?… — Masa Takayama Copy Share Image
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case… — Ann Curry Copy Share Image