Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits… — Ari Up Copy Share Image
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it... — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't. — Sophie Rundle Copy Share Image
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make… — Mario Teguh Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image
I've had the two procedures that probably every other woman in Hollywood has had done. — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done… — James Packer Copy Share Image
I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open.… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
I think that women are often underestimated - our suggestions, our advice, our leadership style. I think one of the reasons that… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
June [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some… — Idara Victor Copy Share Image
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I've now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image