Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard,… — William Schutz Copy Share Image
I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. All that is necessary for the # triumph… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar,… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few,… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
One thing I want to emphasize is that, like any human being, we can discuss our view of the economy and the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.” quote by David E. Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b9c/david-e-hoffman-43835_cannons_i-do-not-think-he-reagan-put-names-and-f_989602.jpg)
![“Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c6/warren-mackenzie-4654_afternoon_looking-back-on-it-now-i-understand-why_1308684.jpg)
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