The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion. — Eric Wareheim Copy Share Image
I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic. — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
