My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
If you subscribe to any online service, whether it be AOL, Google, Yahoo, or the Huffington Post, have you noticed that you… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients. — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I don't have any favourites, but I like situational comedies, not forced ones. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury. — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself. — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how… — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to… — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on… — Alexander Ahndoril Copy Share Image
