What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
To buy is to create. If you buy, then of course things will be created. — Wu Shanzhuan Copy Share Image
One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to… — Oksana Baiul Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate… — John Ford Copy Share Image
Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval… — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
We saw recently that Donald Trump has gotten now over $4 billion in free media exposure, Hillary Clinton over $2 billion, and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
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