... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
