“He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and… — Gary Player Copy Share Image
'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“What's wrong?" His voice was loud, so sharp that he sounded angry. I knew I should be careful, keep the secret, but… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites.… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode,… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“What depresses you most?” I ask. “Tedium. Tedium is far more dangerous than shock. I see no point to words that cower… — Elaine Ambrose Copy Share Image
My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I… — Chris Moneymaker Copy Share Image
When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone.… — Henry Allingham Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it… — Philip J. Corso Copy Share Image
I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of… — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
“He even considered the idea that the shock might extinguish them and they’d simply whiff out like candle flames in a strong… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because… — Keisha Castle-Hughes Copy Share Image
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
