There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night.… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good… — Elmer Keith Copy Share Image
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book! — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you… — Ron White Copy Share Image
If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring… — Walter Lewin Copy Share Image
Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible;… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more… — Karen Black Copy Share Image
I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. — Laura Matilda Towne Copy Share Image
In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as… — Terence MacSwiney Copy Share Image
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it.… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
