In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important… — Keeth Smart Copy Share Image
For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first,… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger… — John Sentamu 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 believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous. — Sydney Sweeney Copy Share Image
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So,… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're… — Marco Rubio 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
I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
