If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy,… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times -… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand,… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL.… — Michael Greenfield Copy Share Image
I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting,… — John August Copy Share Image
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating,… — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are… — Michael Dolan Copy Share Image
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image