Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more… — Cassie Scerbo Copy Share Image
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Maybe you could call me a little controlling or I like things to be my way, but since I was a little… — Ashton Shepherd Copy Share Image
I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in nature, fire caused pinecones to open and prairies to bloom. Sometimes it cleared out old dead trees to make way… — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Most stress is caused by three things; family, money and family with no money. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anxiety is caused when we feel our world changing. Go with it; change is a necessary nutrient. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She hides from you more than the pain you've caused. she hides the proof of how much pain was really dealt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political… — Iveta Radicova Copy Share Image
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
“Even something as harsh as “Why did you do it?” can be calibrated to “What caused you to do it?” which takes… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you… — Greg Wise Copy Share Image
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president… — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother.… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love,… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods...… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
When people hear that I'm a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. 'Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke?' 'How… — Sebastian Seung Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
