UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge,… — John Denham Copy Share Image
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I love it when someone wants nothing to do with me. I think it's so much more attractive. You have to be… — Tommy Ton Copy Share Image
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake… — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
You walk into Air Force One. It's like a surreal experience, in a certain way, but you have to get over it,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing… — Brendan Fehr Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
