Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
