I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to… — Liberace Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
