Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon 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
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can… — Bobbi Gibb Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
So what on Earth there isn't to like about New York? I don't know. But what you do also have is a… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
