I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play.… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh -… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Being on a television show and having so many fans is something that I've never experienced before, and it's really neat when… — Shantel VanSanten Copy Share Image
Sociologists in the 1960s, reaching for an explanation of why cities were burning, often spoke of the problem of 'rising expectations.' It… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had;… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
“He spoke to her, though, if only through his verse. One night in the banqueting hall, just before a ball, he responded… — Judith James Copy Share Image
I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even… — Saul Rubinek Copy Share Image
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they… — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
“Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations… — Tommy Bond Copy Share Image
“He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke - an endless succession of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“And he had heard the conversation, and hadn’t enjoyed it much either, because he kept on thinking that the others were taking… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“To Oz's credit, he didn't say anything, probably because he'd decided that trying to converse with someone so temperamental wasn't worth it.” — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
“lemonade, suntan lotion, books, espadrilles, sunglasses, colored pens, and music, which he listened to with headphones, so that it was impossible to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
“Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image