The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in… — Martial Copy Share Image
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to… — Princess Marie Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them… — Rebecca McCann Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all… — Willie McCovey Copy Share Image
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles. — Amy Shearn Copy Share Image
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really… — Jude Bijou Copy Share Image
I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away. — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts. — Barry Gibb Copy Share Image
That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
