The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own… — Lara Giddings Copy Share Image
Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
