When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake? — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I’m even flattered! It’s what success is like. I’m happy I seem unreal to them, it means I’m doing a good job, — Valeria Lukyanova Copy Share Image
You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me,… — Rodney Clawson Copy Share Image
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt.… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . .… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Even in motocross, you're struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross. — Casey Stoner Copy Share Image
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
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