Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may… — John Oates Copy Share Image
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.'… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds… — Edward Conlon Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat,… — Duke Robillard Copy Share Image
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved… — Nick Farr-Jones Copy Share Image
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship… — John Green Copy Share Image