This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball,… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Rowww!” Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn’t appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it,… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
“They returned to the gallery and circled its rim, then went down a short hall. Scrap's tail twitched angrily when they reached… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image