“My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country… — Charb Copy Share Image
One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Rats! Sometimes it's very difficult being a dog... Especially when it's raining. You're looking forward to a great breakfast... When it arrives,… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I… — Billy Unger Copy Share Image
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what it’s like to be a friend any more than you do. I think “hard” when it should be… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was… — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create… — Christine Lakin Copy Share Image
Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I… — Kate Hoey Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
