Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time. — Jeannine Parvati Baker Copy Share Image
The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Copy Share Image
I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one. — Nigel Worthington Copy Share Image
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally… — Mick Ebeling Copy Share Image
Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Your first leader is your dad. 'course he controls your food and shelter, so, he's not really a leader, he's more of… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
