I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest.… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised on my social accounts that people assume that because you have a job in television you don't have a… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
Often I would get offers to remake films and that didn't interest me. I have no interest in remaking a film in… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and… — Alan Borovoy Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that… — Frank Arthur Swinnerton Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the… — Hubertine Auclert Copy Share Image
My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
