An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Generally the impulse to find justice through punitive measures can be a kind of quicksand. What James Whitman, the scholar I cite… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad,… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most –… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For some roles, like when I was doing Bent, that was harder and I didn't find that helpful because I was so… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
