Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word,… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold... — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
