I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin Copy Share Image
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in… — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of MAC's sheer pressed powder because it feels virtually weightless. I can actually wear it to the gym… — Brandi Rhodes Copy Share Image
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get… — Betty Hill Copy Share Image