A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun;… — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other:… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings,… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr.… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day.… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
