Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in… — Christine Lakin Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's important to feel for the character, as you will be watched by audience, and when you start feeling… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Don’t say bad words; don’t interrupt people; don’t shove; don’t steal; don’t lie. To the child, all these prohibitions appear identical (“It’s… — Andre Compte-Sponville Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area… — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
“for the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
One day, a rich dad took his son on a trip to a village. He wanted to show him how poor someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“It is the divine light, the inner heaven, the key to all moral treasures, the centre of thought and consciousness, the source… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
