Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can educate people about politics, criminality, the law, but not about medicine? It's just silly… I really don't want to hurt… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex… — Mirah Copy Share Image
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I can't work out and *not* be watching or listening to music or something. I also journal a lot. I think writing… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
The audience has spoken, they want stories. They're dying for them. They're rooting for us to give them the right thing and… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
All the stupid silly things people do, say and fuss about now are going to mean absolutely nothing later in life. You… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind… — Libby Trickett Copy Share Image
Channeling is a practice that is very popular right now. It is very dangerous. It is a process in which you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
Pop music is great, but there's a lot of BS about the attitude of guys being super-gangster - that's why the whole… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
