Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long… — John Leo Copy Share Image
I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same… — David Trumble Copy Share Image
It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take… — Ariana Richards Copy Share Image
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image