Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." — Charles Francis Adams Jr Copy Share Image
It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable. — Jon Gries Copy Share Image
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and… — Arkady Volozh Copy Share Image
The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars"… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Azhar Usman is a true original and will laugh the hate right out of you. — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
