The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I've never forgotten a word of advice my father gave to me. 'Never lose sight of your dream,' he said 'Of that… — Helen Lowrie Marshall Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of times you'll hear horror stories about actors being incredibly selfish and only wanting themselves to shine, but for me,… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person. — Mildred H. McAfee Copy Share Image
The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart,… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
