A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons. — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one. — Jackie Tabick Copy Share Image
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man… — Francois-Noel Babeuf Copy Share Image
The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
