I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself. — Beverley Mitchell Copy Share Image
...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
“Although she was no longer weeping and appeared remarkably composed, I knew that behind that facade, someone was breaking inside. Piece by… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met… — Julia Restoin Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie." — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Theres one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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