“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
As a Magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic whether I'm holding my breath… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when… — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
The idea for Not For Sale originated as a simple brand to tell as many people as possible about what we are… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been… — John Brunner Copy Share Image