I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet:… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you now." "Just… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
This year, 1.7 million young people will be participating in Olympic and Paralympic sports in their communities-many of them for the very… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could… — William Walton Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first…Like when we first started talking on the phone, he… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger,… — Louis E. Boone Copy Share Image
There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot… — Kyrie Irving Copy Share Image
![“What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint…” quote by Philip Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa0/philip-ball-54140_able_what-is-striking-is-these-things-pattern_1710677.jpg)
![“That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't…” quote by Roland Emmerich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/682/roland-emmerich-16132_built_that-one-in-2012-was-different-because-i_1598654.jpg)
![“We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business than the first X-Men, did more than Batman Begins, our first movie, did more than Superman Returns, The Fast and the Furious, Star Trek- so for a movie that was an original…” quote by Thomas Tull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10e/thomas-tull-26044_business_we-love-being-in-business-with-guillermo_2181530.jpg)
![“I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen…” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dbf/william-a-rusher-20922_clinton_i-think-the-fact-that-she-eleanor-roosev_133419.jpg)
