All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the… — Larry Mullen Copy Share Image
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two… — Richard McGuire Copy Share Image
Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life. — Shiri Appleby Copy Share Image
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail;… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing… — Tamer Hassan Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Whether I like them or I don't like them, it makes no difference for me. Whoever is standing across the cage from… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied… — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
