With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures."… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college,… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit,… — John Otto Copy Share Image
Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy… — John Cena Copy Share Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.' — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.' — Howard Dean Copy Share Image