One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image
Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak… — Jane Harman Copy Share Image
Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Being famous very often means sacrificing your privacy and that of others. You have to impose on those close to you a… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost… — David Lubar Copy Share Image