The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I've done things that can be made fun of. It's not such a bad thing. If I'm going to end up a… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to… — Tatjana Patitz Copy Share Image
Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's really neat when you become a role model. It's also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time,… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Kid?” – Kyrian “I’m not worthy.” – Nick “What?” – Kyrian “Dude, that’s a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it.… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
I don't like to use the words "real women," honestly. I like to use the word woman. And I say that because… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I… — T.I Copy Share Image
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media,… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image