Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me. — Drake Copy Share Image
By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them,… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try… — Roger Miret Copy Share Image
As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen. — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that… — John Polson Copy Share Image
I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And,… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
I never try to be religious. I never try to be any type of religious cat. Spiritual, yes, but religion, when you… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy.… — Gary Kraftsow 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
You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image