Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would… — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. … There are no back doors, no free rides. There's… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are… — Anthony Rapp Copy Share Image
I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
New parents will feel that euphoric high where they feel like their mind is racing and they can't sleep. But its important… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I thought I had joined one of the best clubs in the world, one of the biggest names around, and I had,… — Pepe Reina Copy Share Image
You know that you’ve found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning… — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more,… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to… — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture,… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Success is won by those who believe in winning & then prepare for that moment. Many want to win, but how many… — Herb Brooks Copy Share Image
If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
