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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams 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
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of… — Charles Dickens 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going… — Bonnie Raitt 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
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
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
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved,… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
