I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing.… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple. — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant,… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where… — Willie Pastrano Copy Share Image
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Copy Share Image
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
