It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents… — Royal Cortissoz Copy Share Image
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself. — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today. — Sebastian Janikowski Copy Share Image
You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm." — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of. — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man was… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane! — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image