When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that… — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
“We are the stars of our own world and we are also actors who take small parts in the outside world, yet… — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely due to our living in cities… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“They were one unto the other, a circle whirling evenly, effortlessly, endlessly. He knew beauty and the intensity of a dream and… — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
“San Francisco’s battles are no longer with itself but with the outside world, as it exports the European-style social ideas that drive… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“Things get worse. When Mum is drugged and sad and singing tunes from the Roger Whittaker album every night, that is one… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Don't we all discover, at some stage or another that there are some things we'll never get any better at, even though… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“We have no means of understanding a fraction of the thought and science and philosophy and law that have gone to make… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
You have to be good at not focusing too much on the outside world. — Martin Odegaard Copy Share Image
I close my conscience to the outside world, because in my thoughts only beautiful things exists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
“Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“As she piped rosettes, docked a sheet of dough, or doused a tart with sanding sugar, another world occurred on the doorstep.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Growing up, I always thought of hospitals as having a certain mystique that was impenetrable to the outside world. White-coated figures paraded… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“He was my lifeline,and I was pretty sure he will always be. There was no place I felt safer than when he… — Sherri Hayes Copy Share Image
