When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Sometimes films don't turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire… — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years. — David Boies Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution. — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing… — John Green Copy Share Image
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
