Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the… — Ibn Battuta Copy Share Image
You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
If you tried to make a show for every person's particular interest, it'd be impossible because everyone is going to consume it… — Scott Van Pelt Copy Share Image
You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours… — David Cummings Copy Share Image
I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of.… — Howard Thompson Copy Share Image
Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at… — Brent Sexton Copy Share Image
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
