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Interestingly for me, modern rom coms have not always been funny - many of the iconic rom coms are more like light… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
"Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll… — Neal Knox Copy Share Image
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
So you can get very remarkable investment results if you think more like a winning pari-mutuel player. Just think of it as… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that quote because of the Doors." Jace looked at her blankly. "The Doors. They were a band." "If you say… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there's actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is,… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image