“For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to… — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something -… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
It was the first time I used that bat. A Yankee fan in Chicago gave it to me the last time we… — Graig Nettles Copy Share Image
I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew,… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things… — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the… — Rie Rasmussen Copy Share Image
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Models now need to promote themselves, think like business women and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
