At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices… — Ouida Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very… — William Laud Copy Share Image
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on,… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image