In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try… — Fergie Copy Share Image
I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's… — Clinton Portis Copy Share Image
Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is,… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You don't have to prove yourself that you are so much better than the others. Life is not a competition, do what… — Leighn Lamanilao Copy Share Image
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself.… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
