No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind:… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter. — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and… — Matthew Barnett Copy Share Image
When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter. — Jim George Copy Share Image
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. — Charles Traub Copy Share Image
Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It… — Bruce Henderson 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
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image