I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
There are actors I know personally, or I've heard them say, "The less known about me, the better, because I just want… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I’ve known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember. I know it troubles many people for me to refer to… — Caitlin Stasey Copy Share Image
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks… — Jessa Gamble Copy Share Image
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The hang clean is unweighted and is of little use to watch, except that it shows a problem known as a Donkey… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time,… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hate the charge, I find it repulsive.I hate even the question [about anti-Semitism ] because people that know me and you… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I actually love 'Saturday Night Live,' like a sports fan watches their favorite team to see how they're doing. I know the… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time:… — Louis Cozolino Copy Share Image
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
If I had known that this movie would bring so much craziness, I don't know if I would have said 'yes' to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image