An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage,… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is… — Vance Gilbert Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We… — Cyril Ponnamperuma Copy Share Image
Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless.… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation:… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition glamour, allure, power of wealth, and… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are,… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out… — Mike Duncan Copy Share Image
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine.… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
