One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you. — Prodigy Copy Share Image
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect,… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it… — Alexandre Aja Copy Share Image
I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree,… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much.… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them. — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
All I want to say is that anybody, well, from the Democratic side of the fence who thinks that - who's terrified… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy, Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly, Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't… — T.I Copy Share Image
Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be — Johnny Giles Copy Share Image