When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home.… — Carole King Copy Share Image
It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very… — Philippa Boyens Copy Share Image
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk,… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing,… — Donald Driver Copy Share Image
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The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an… — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
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You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I see parallels between Karachi and the cities that I was familiar with: a very different place, but in terms of its… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo… — JoJo Copy Share Image
I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
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The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar -… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare;… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image