I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“I can easily believe that there are more invisible creatures in the universe than visible ones. But who will tell us to… — Thomas Burnet Copy Share Image
“In German one of the terms for imagination is the compound word Einbildungskraft: literally, the "power ( Kraft)" of "forming ( Bildung)"… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“There is probably something good in every religion, the important thing is how you practice it. And this is when I found… — Lars Von Trier Copy Share Image
“Paying attention matters in the smaller moments in everyday life, too: driving to work, short conversations by phone, clearing a few e-mails,… — Margaret Moore Copy Share Image
“Germany, a country with a tradition of strong commitment to public funding for culture, has a statement which clearly refers to non-economic… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
“Next Christmas he was going to open this shabby sack of hers... and put something in the money compartment. She would fritter… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Political emancipation is a reduction of man, on the one hand to a member of civil society, an independent and egoistic individual,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
“The reality of everyday life further presents itself to me as an intersubjective world, a world that I share with others. This… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr Copy Share Image
“The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same:… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rain-slicked streets of Oblakgrad, Dírorth was a stir of activity. The streets were lined with vendors selling greasy meat pies… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Jesus of Nazareth is so entirely one of them they can hardly find anything special about him at all. He fits right… — Catherine McNiel Copy Share Image
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
“I also know, of course, that the others have a perspective on this common world that is not identical with mine. My… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“There is another reason ever-single women fare even better than previously married women in later life. They mastered the single life long… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“She stands at the hairpin turn on Night Road. On either side of her, giant evergreens grow clustered together, rising high into… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“As we discussed in chapter 2, there are three ways in which anxiety affects people: physically, mentally, and behaviorally. In this section,… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“It can be seen not just as part of the human condition, but central to what it is to be human. We… — Tom Inglis Copy Share Image
My daddy looks tough as nails And hard as metal. But the truth is easy to tell Hes sweet and loving And… — Addy Copy Share Image
“This doll-guy situation is an extreme of what I deal with in everyday life, where men believe that what they want I… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
He takes responsibility to provide not only materialistic items that are a daily necessity, but also is responsible being His child's Hero… — Raquel Chavez Copy Share Image
“I strip myself emotionally when I confess need – that I would be lost without you, that I am not necessarily the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“My angel, oh my angel, perhaps our whole earthly existence is now but a pun to you, or a grotesque rhyme, something… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A second level of analysis for conceptualizing spirituality is in terms of personalized goals or strivings, or what Emmons and colleagues have… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image