“Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“With our collective shock, what we saw seemed to be frozen into a state of suspended animation. Indelibly etched into our memories… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
I have made mention of something I've found incredible a lot of times. I'm gonna remind you of it again. A TIME… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
One fella went on the internet and got lots of photos of me in Love Actually, topless and naked and stuff, printed… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through.… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Eric,” he said, licking a droplet from the corner of his mouth. “Have you ever tasted blood?” My mouth was… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“If you haven't been this close to superhumans, you don't understand what it's like to fight them. Even when you've got powers… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Jess:"Sasha? I need some tissue to pack my nose with." Sasha:"Is that hygienically sound?" Jess:"Sasha..." Sasha:"Fine, but if you get toxic shock… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Galadir frowned, looking at her. «I don't need the stars to see you, Morwen.» She turned istinctively toward him, caught by those… — Chiara Cilli Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to… — Oveta Culp Hobby Copy Share Image
The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
![“When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated…” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bda/garry-kasparov-910_capable_when-vladimir-putin-a-former-lieutenant_1098683.jpg)
![“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's…” quote by George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/george-carlin-155_common_i-use-the-vulgar-words-because-apparentl_2276939.jpg)
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