And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to play Nightwing real bad. I worked with [Arrow creator] Greg Berlanti a while ago on a show called Everwood… — Steven R. McQueen Copy Share Image
Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’ — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I… — Terry Kath Copy Share Image
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform? — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image