I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop… — Alan Hansen Copy Share Image
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Trade shows and events drive a surge in readership for trade magazines, websites, and newspapers. This spike is a prime opportunity to… — Lisa Masiello Copy Share Image
Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet Copy Share Image
Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day.… — John Banville Copy Share Image
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
Economic headwinds, technological change, redundancy, all of these can leave people wondering how they are going to get their next job, but… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how… — John Green Copy Share Image
And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said… — Junaid Jamshed Copy Share Image
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
The Bible says that in the last days that it will be like labor pains. As a woman is ready to give… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer,… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded… — John Updike Copy Share Image
People don't use Evite or Facebook events for their weddings. But they do use Paperless Post. It's the sign of a paradigm… — Alexa Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
