In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Given [Donald] Trump's polling deficit, his reluctance for ads until very recently in his near total lack of any ground game to… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing,… — Scottie Thompson Copy Share Image
If our brands are going to be in print and on mobile handsets and in video and events, we have to acknowledge… — Norman Pearlstine Copy Share Image
American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going… — Ashton Eaton Copy Share Image
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Human beings, in their present evolved state, have a limited capacity to digest, understand, and then properly and accurately disseminate events and… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
You can get tired of anything, everything turns old, but I want to give people the possibility to share a Vogue party.… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image