“When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor… — Peter Oliver Copy Share Image
I never wanted to accept that. And so I have always fought against that in some way, shape or form and had… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
How can you run for president if you don't know the job description? — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“ Aleksei with his impossible curls so very like her own, yet less seemly perhaps. Such hair is somewhat fairy-tale in a… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
I think [John's Adams] descriptions of the personalities of [Benjamin] Franklin and [Tomas] Jefferson and others were pretty accurate. It is only… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image