I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the… — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think… — Robin Guthrie Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV… — Tana French Copy Share Image