I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice,… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before… — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally,… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being… — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict… — Ger Duany Copy Share Image
When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right? — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that… — Osborn Elliott Copy Share Image
It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all… — Tom Chappell Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image