Regardless of their politics, the vast majority of the people I meet, when they can speak and listen and act of their… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
When I began to write novels, I wanted to keep that element of interaction with the reader that exists in poetry, not… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an… — Ira Progoff Copy Share Image
How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing.… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At summits Margaret Tatcher was the only woman. Always perfectly coiffed, splendidly dressed - beautiful maroon or dark blue suits. That lovely… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
I like to make music because I've been making music since I was 7. I can get across the things that I… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's… — Juanita Millender-McDonald Copy Share Image
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
English is my first language. When I learn a song in a new language, I break down the sounds phonetically and write… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image