Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business… — Ross Levinsohn Copy Share Image
How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions?… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long… — Daniel Burnham Copy Share Image
No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war,… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it's becoming more and more relevant. If… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want… — Tadanobu Asano Copy Share Image
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself.… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I dont know about others; I just know… — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
