Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance!… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
And you've got that look on your face again." "I can't help it, "Ehren said. "You're about to walk to breakfast, arn't… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to… — Alison Lohman Copy Share Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You lose like five pounds immediately, and your face is glowing and gorgeous! — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent...… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and… — Tal Ben-Shahar Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
Clary?” Jace tilted his head to the side, studying her face. “You do—you still love me, don’t you?” “I love Jace Lightwood,”… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image