Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
“Give me another chance, one more chance, and I’ll walk a line so straight people will think I’ve been possessed.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Finn,” she protested. “I wasn’t laughing like, with her.” Izzy glowered at me. “She tried to kill me.” “Actually, I didn’t,” I… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Editing. This never-ending maze through which I run, searching soulful nooks for the faintest shimmers of solace or escape. There is no… — Kristine Cheney Copy Share Image
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
