In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Without having some kind of parameters placed on a coach, the reality is they could all have a different vision of what… — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I came to the country [U.S] without speaking a word of English, without a penny, worked full time, 40 hours a week,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and… — Sebastian Vettel Copy Share Image
in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I've learned that one of my greatest secrets is scheduling downtime into a busy schedule. This gives me the time to have… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of people don't take the advice they're given. But I would do what they suggested, and then… — Shellye Archambeau Copy Share Image
People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the… — Donald McCaig Copy Share Image
I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Other than a couple of moments in time, I always thought that, some way, I'm going to make it. I'm just going… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm just happy that I'll have someone to give all my shoes to! I'll have someone to take over everything. It's funny… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There's the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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