Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Well...what did you promise exactly? Not to tell anyone that Eric Dragomir had a mistress and baby?" Sonya nodded. "And not to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I first pitched 'Parenthood' to Ron Howard and Brian Grazer - who made the movie - I was going through the… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire.… — Brother Roger Copy Share Image
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Don't worry about me," I finally said. "Really. I'm more worried about you." And even more worried about where Graves is. "Are… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What most people find festive-a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
