I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training,… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own--… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to… — Jeroen Dijsselbloem Copy Share Image
Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me.… — Don Adams Copy Share Image
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and… — Jennifer Lanthier Copy Share Image
I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. — J. B. Morton Copy Share Image
