To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in… — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part… — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I like Billy Beane for the fact that he - his idiosyncrasies, that he can't watch the games without getting too emotional,… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
