The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The persecutorial impulse - 'the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings as imagined agents… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and… — Laurie Sheck 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
We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody… — Will Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party,… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
