During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows.… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
He [directo Park] gave me a sculpture, a jaguar. It is the animal, obviously, and it is in my bedroom at my… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of… — Niklas Zennstrom Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while.… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It's been such a struggle to learn all that I have; I wouldn't want to give any of that knowledge up. That's… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image