I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again,… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents.… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
That isn't to say that Hawaii's better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here."… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Disability in the Middle East is viewed through a different lens because you're in wartime countries where it's much more mainstream, so… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices. — Kangna Ranaut Copy Share Image
You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
