I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a… — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think… — Geoff Tate Copy Share Image
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick") — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely? — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made. — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
