I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones. — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The… — Deva Premal Copy Share Image
I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system,… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image