No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Now we live in a time where the public and the private are completely fused and there isn't such a great distinction.… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Through them, the story becomes an argument for a better way of seeing, which has always struck me as being one of… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Is there some reason why the quality of people going into the parliament is not as high? I don't know the complete… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives… — Charles Orville Whitley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I dont know whether Ill ever get married. Ive seen too many supposedly happy marriages go down. Ive been as shocked as… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image