I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did.… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
My sister Wendy has a husband and two children, and they have a family photo on top of the VCR, where they're… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
What's that?" "It looks like something from Linus... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
In my safe corporate job, I might have made one decision of real significance a year. As an entrepreneur, it feels like… — Jane Park Copy Share Image
Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That… — Maurice White Copy Share Image
But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it… — Nas Copy Share Image
Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. — Anonymous Copy Share Image