If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
All Christian religions are outer-directed. "Who can I convert?" "Let's go to this country and make them Christians." "Wear this." "Do that."… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
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The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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