Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front"… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Today, it may seem as if there are demons attacking me from within. I should remember that demons are illusory, and that… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know,… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the… — Philip Glenister Copy Share Image
Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience,… — Simon Neil Copy Share Image
In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have… — Sam Messer Copy Share Image
Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run. — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume Copy Share Image
As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating,… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm 74 years old and, even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image