I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters. — Jamie Parker Copy Share Image
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
That's not a convincing argument. Public sector jobs are cyclical. Teachers get fired when money is tight, then rehired when things get… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me. — Everett McGill Copy Share Image
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem.… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a… — Ray Wise Copy Share Image
My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien"… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
