You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Awkward gestures, clumsy gestures, fist pumps. I just do whatever I feel like is right in the moment. If I need to… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats,… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time.… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
