The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This is something I realized after stepping away from women's fashion for the last five years. When you are inside, it is… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Five years before my accident in 2003, you saw Kobe and Shaq pull up to games on bikes. Michael Jordan owned a… — Jay Williams Copy Share Image
“After five years I still had the impulse, every ten to twelve months, to find a new home. Spaces became too familiar,… — Chloe Aridjis Copy Share Image
If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been… — Ashley Banjo Copy Share Image
“You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room,… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
“In many modern dairy farms a milk cow usually lives for about five years before being slaughtered. During these five years she… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It was on the highway - I was completely stopped and the girl behind me was texting and not paying attention and… — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
When I talk to people the usual progression is, "Flogging's cruel and barbaric," moving very quickly to, "Only 10 lashes for five… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think my son is a bit young for me to be away. I really feel like during the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“In the week I promised myself I should naturally read, for to the habitual reader reading is a drug of which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“Growing up in an old city, you learn history's one true lesson: that history fades. Nothing sticks together for very long without… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
“In the year 1240, however, a radical change in policy took effect. Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, decreed that,… — Bill Hayes Copy Share Image
“In a decade that would become known as the Roaring Twenties, a “Jazz Age” glamorized in the works of authors like F.… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“I page through the book, my heart thumping in my chest as I’m brought back to him, to Mayson Holt, the boy… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what's the really worthwhile advice that a 21,… — David Corn Copy Share Image
“The inescapable truth... is that, within a miraculously short period of five years, your Government reduced this country from a position of… — Robert Boothby Copy Share Image
“A pastor impatiently demands his children to know, believe, and do what it took him twenty-five or forty-five years with Jesus to… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy… — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Why are you so weak, ma petite ? This is not acceptable." She waved his concern aside. "Is it acceptable for you… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“If we build a machine with the intellectual capability of one human, within five years, its successor will be more intelligent than… — James Barrat Copy Share Image
[on playing Walter] It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able… — John Noble Copy Share Image
With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“If that kid turned out to be a loser, it’s his own fault. We all make choices. When you grew up, you… — Pam Logan Copy Share Image
I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less,… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About… — Beck Copy Share Image