“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself - not… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea.… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think there is a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian. There is something definitely inside the personality of a… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time.… — Blair Underwood Copy Share Image
In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and… — Eileen O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no… — Peter Farrelly Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but… — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the character should be nude in the scene and it makes sense and I trust the person making the film then… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image