Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't… — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
Let’s find someplace where there aren’t any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that’s big enough to accommodate both… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
A huge number of real 'Chase' fans have taken me to their hearts and people are recognizing me out and about and… — Jenny Ryan Copy Share Image
I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I realized that my money would do vastly more good for others than it could for me and decided to make a… — Toby Ord Copy Share Image
There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Americans spend about 6 billion hours a year collecting the data and filling out the forms. We spend $10 billion to H&R… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I’m a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It’s such an… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it… — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare…I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our rallies with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
In autumn 2012 I conducted a dedication and blessing service following the Civil Partnership of two wonderful gay Christians. Why? Not to… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - it's a lot of… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image