And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases. — Plato Copy Share Image
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Voices come to me but to maintain them is hard work. They go away just as easily, so I have to remember… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they're far… — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy. — Billy Barty Copy Share Image
Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
To all the staff members that take care of us every single day, From Donnie Strack, to Joe Sharpe, Tony Katz, Dave… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration,… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and… — Hal Blaine Copy Share Image
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap. — Joan Van Ark Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
For heaven’s sake, if you don’t know someone’s name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product… — Majel Barrett Copy Share Image
A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around… — Macy Gray Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image