I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood… — Cindy Adams Copy Share Image
Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's… — John Parish Copy Share Image
I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have to say that it's a weird feeling to have to respond to a Christian leader of an anti-Muslims organisation -… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
