“As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here -… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies. — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that… — Richard Parks Bland Copy Share Image
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better… — Summer Phoenix Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
