Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem… — Herbert Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The other great thing about it, that seems to be the case in streaming, is that a lot more scripts are written… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies.… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis,… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers. — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
