Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something. — Mary McGarry Morris Copy Share Image
Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
Sin will take you farther than you ever intended to go, it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay,… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect?… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I… — Peter Slipper Copy Share Image
For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected. — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image