Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?'… — Ken Caldeira Copy Share Image
I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower,… — Claude-Michel Schonberg Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a… — William Feather Copy Share Image
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
