Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water.” — Khaled Talib Copy Share Image
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate… — Alex Sanchez Copy Share Image
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather,… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase,… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common". — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
