Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
If you do a quantity challenge, the problem you'd face would be a starchy challenge. If it has a lot of potatoes,… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have… — Fritz Stern Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think love and obsession are almost one in the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm choosing projects to be a part of it's always a combination of so many different things. The primary thing is… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image