If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable,… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And -… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You know, Longmire and all those other great (whodunit) series, I would love to one of those. We just haven't found the… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whatever the hair… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
There's a lot of women that wanted no part of this feminist movement way back in the late sixties. The modern era… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of the vegetables you see in the supermarkets came from the American Indians. They also gave us aspirin and quinine.… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image