I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one… — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind. — David Wong Copy Share Image
I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image