Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I was very punk. I was very revolutionary. When they asked me to do Givenchy, I didn't want to… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria… — Petria Thomas Copy Share Image
Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We saw groups of people gathering in front of Lula's house in Sao Paulo this morning. You had people shouting at one… — Simon Romero Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I really saw Pat Brady, Kelsey Grammer's character's point of view that it's a business. It's show business. So, it was an… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number.… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth on his,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange… — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run?… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like that stick of yours," he said. "It's a staff." Jem swung out to knock another automaton sideways. "Made by the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant.… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image