Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Eventually we have to "settle up" and pay the price for our ethical violations. Just remember the old line that says, "You… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
What is important to me, is to make a girl look better. To really make the most of all her womanly wiles.… — Byron Lars Copy Share Image
Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic… — Trey Hardee Copy Share Image
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.”… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours,… — Millard Kaufman Copy Share Image
Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental.… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My kids! They run so hot and cold. One minute, I am in complete control and feeling like Supermom, then the next… — Kristen Taekman Copy Share Image
It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?'… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Those are the rules. To improvise in a movie with other people, when they're following a script, everybody has to know what's… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image