My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out." Liesl managed… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and… — Mark Oliver Everett Copy Share Image
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism?… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Any outfit that can’t figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can’t benefit from my advice.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
