You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation, in a race or in life. Am I on target? Do… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw… — Bruno Munari Copy Share Image
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The true marker of success is when the creative minds behind a film can sit down and feel that they have succeeded… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass,… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Top Democrats laying down their markers for how they'll work with President [Donald] Trump, but who will take on the job of… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers.… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made,… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
![“When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?” quote by Geena Rocero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a2/geena-rocero-53967_asia_when-i-moved-to-the-united-states-from-a_1269263.jpg)
![“They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they…” quote by Larkin Grimm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a6/larkin-grimm-21078_bankers_they-investment-bankers-don-t-even-want_2098201.jpg)
![“He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this…” quote by Mark Z. Danielewski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c08/mark-z-danielewski-2497_angel_he-zampano-probably-would-of-insisted-on_1576555.jpg)
![“There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilising factor, you will have a very different kind of Middle East.” quote by Condoleezza Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/199/condoleezza-rice-807_country_there-have-been-plenty-of-markers-that-s_1516873.jpg)
![“Top Democrats laying down their markers for how they'll work with President [Donald] Trump, but who will take on the job of rebuilding the Democratic Party after Tuesday's crushing defeat put Republicans in control of the White House and congress.” quote by George Stephanopoulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18f/george-stephanopoulos-7418_congress_top-democrats-laying-down-their-markers_1421933.jpg)
