Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never… — Kenyon Martin Copy Share Image
I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first… — Robbie Keane Copy Share Image
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and… — Olivia Hussey Copy Share Image
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might… — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
You do sometimes have to work on things where you love the cast and you love the filmmaker, and the role might… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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