When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up… — Vladimir Guerrero Copy Share Image
I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person. — Mike Donehey Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl… — Danielle Arbid Copy Share Image
I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image