Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example,… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects… — Harold Gatty Copy Share Image
I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I've done a contract with my district. I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay… — Bobby Schilling Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think my collection is doing really well, but collaborating is actually just a nice exercise in doing something different. For example,… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world… [ellipsis in source] He was always… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java,… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy… — Orlan Copy Share Image
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
De Niro is a classic example of somebody who is iconic and who sort of effortlessly puts actors at ease the moment… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
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Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
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