I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist.… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles. I think anyone who makes a… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a… — Denise Van Outen Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
