For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium;… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did. — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time. — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So,… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it… — Alexandre Aja Copy Share Image
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
