I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind,… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
To rid the grass of weed, to get The whole root, Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind And desire - to make… — Lucien Stryk Copy Share Image
There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by… — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I have the greatest appreciation for [producers] Matt Alvarez and Ice Cube. They put me in Friday after Next, and now this,… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if… — Adam Thielen Copy Share Image
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live.… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end.… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm in great company and some may say that the underexposure has added to my allure and the staying power of me… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings. — Fernand Pouillon Copy Share Image
All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice.… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel… — Bernard Jensen Copy Share Image
A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image