Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't know if [Barack Obama] saw the latest religion survey, but almost a quarter of the country are Nones. I don't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night;… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters,… — Morris West Copy Share Image
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
The market is now factoring in that first-quarter earnings will likely be below consensus. And the reality is that economic growth is… — Subodh Kumar Copy Share Image
Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
When I get older losing my hair many years from now, Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives,… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image