Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content. — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. — Jud Tylor Copy Share Image
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Don't duh me!" Puck snapped. "Trying to figure out what you're thinking from one day to the next takes more brains than… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
What were you dreaming about?" "You." He twisted a lock of her hair around his finger. "I always dream about you." "Oh,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh.… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image