An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked… — Michael Mayer Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be… — Wilson Bentley Copy Share Image
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many… — Afshin Molavi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Likewise a friend of Bloughram's… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image