You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well,… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean? — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to… — Jewel Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image