Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I try to take interest in whatever comes my way. Another aspect of this is [that] if at the beginning it seems… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always… — Gary North Copy Share Image
In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What,… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has… — Everett McGill Copy Share Image
Audience interest is directly proportionate to the presenter's preparation. You better spend time and energy on any presentations where the stakes are… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . .… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top… — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows… — Kevin Chapman Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Before 'Final Fantasy VII,' I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image