You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
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If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
The issue is not going to church; rather, the issue is worshipping and renewing covenants as we attend church. The issue is… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
We worked six days a week [on the The Breakfast Club], so you have one day off. So on that Saturday night,… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image