Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly.… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Never let your emotions cloud your judgement. For when your emotions take over, you will not be able to control it until… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That… — Jane Borodale Copy Share Image
“As we settle together, spiraling down from bliss, I land in a space of clarity. I stop worrying if it’s going to… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
“Destiny is a gift – of you, to yourself and to the world – to be unwrapped over time. But before you… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I do not so easily think in words… after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
My husband and I had recently been in a car accident, and I came out of that experience with more clarity about… — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness,… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
“What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others! He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Freedom is really not about possessing anything, but is actually being without; without hatred, without clinging, violence, greed, and so on. Losing… — Francis Fern Copy Share Image
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
“He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
“Issues or fears of confrontation tend to showcase unhealthy and unprofessional communication. If you are trusting someone to tell you all the… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image