If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event — Peggy Fleming Copy Share Image
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every… — Rohit Sharma Copy Share Image
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too… — Christian Carion Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
In that - and that is my personal view - Singapore delivers the most value, as they think about Formula One as… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism… — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it,… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and… — Keegan Bradley Copy Share Image
