If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves. — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure. — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong. — Paulina Porizkova Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you;… — Warren Sapp Copy Share Image
Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I want to get a handle on the music. There's only so much you can do alone. I want everyone else there.… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo? — John Connolly Copy Share Image
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more. — Garth Crooks Copy Share Image
