Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
THE POWER OF A COMPELLING CAUSE RESTS IN THE SOUL OF ITS CREATOR, because a cause springs from the soul. It is… — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe,… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
