The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! — Mae West Copy Share Image
And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato Copy Share Image
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the… — Terry Eastland Copy Share Image
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image