“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“There were three, very large males standing above her, staring. She started from left to right. Big green-eyed male, big green-eyed male… — Madison Thorne Grey Copy Share Image
“Why are you staring at me?” she’d ask. “‘Cause you’re pretty,” I’d reply. “You’re the first one who’s ever said that.” “I’m… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant.… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed… — Julie James Copy Share Image
People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The moment when you dream of someone deeply at night and in the morning you see that person staring and smiling at… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Charlotte, darling," Henry said to his wife, who was staring at him in gape-mouthed horror. Jessamine, beside her, was wide eyed. "Sorry… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image