The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — Plato Copy Share Image
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Goods were arranged in glass cabinets as if they were ancient Egyptian artefacts. I was a contaminant, a fly in the gourmet… — A.J. Reid Copy Share Image
I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but… — Enoch Fitch Burr Copy Share Image
A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance… — John Newton Copy Share Image
I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern… — Rufus Dawes Copy Share Image
