But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act. — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky Copy Share Image
I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden.… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image