Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
“He knows nothing of those dark roads she’s travelled, those dark deeds she’s done, the doors she’s locked her innocence in. That… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,… — Sascha Rothchild Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I just wanted things to be simple. I didn't understand why things had to be so complicated for all the grown ups.… — A.L. Collins Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
“He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't want it… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt',… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It is… — null Copy Share Image
I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't… — Ezra Edelman Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Aden St. George managed to avoid having to kill the guard stationed outside his quarry’s crypt-like cell, although the thug outside the… — Vanessa Kelly Copy Share Image
One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
“COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!” In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of blossoming; here… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
