I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
"Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had… — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
