There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove. — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement. — Timbaland Copy Share Image
It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience.… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells,… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
