“Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.” — Bethany Brookbank Copy Share Image
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group].… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If… — Gregory Kane Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
