New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of… — Michael Spiller Copy Share Image
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I really like when critics reveal their subjectivity and their humanity. I prefer it when people say nice things, but if they… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Look at all of the great strengths of America: entrepreneurialship, work ethic, natural resources, a democracy, a transparency, a willingness to be… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation,… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend… — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size,… — Asa Baber Copy Share Image
As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection… — Jane Harman Copy Share Image
We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting.… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Rent-to-own provides a vital service to millions of Americans. It is also critical for African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities to have access… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of… — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
