I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
"What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs?" I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps.… — Mark Haskell Smith Copy Share Image
You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in,… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don’t really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of acting is working with your own psyche in order to allow yourself to be open and reveal yourself. But… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
There were times when I was frustrated, and cried and felt helpless, but the reality in Ethiopia is that you don't have… — Feyisa Lilesa Copy Share Image
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
You look at Donald Trump and Ben Carson and you can see the people supporting them are small donors, the people I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Some people criticise me for not being animated enough, for sitting in stands and not showing any passion. I come down, get… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is… — Walter Kiechel Copy Share Image
A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are… — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I've done my "mind over matter" movies, and I think probably that people aren't really interested in seeing me do that anymore.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
There's a theory with comedy that you shouldn't do anything that's too topical in your specials because people won't be able to… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
