There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Money can make people look at you in strange ways. You get phone calls from people you haven't spoken with in a… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
One of the dark truths about dictators - and it applies to Gaddafi - is that on some level, they love their… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
His frown was less dark and more confused."What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes."… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her… — Nehemiah Adams Copy Share Image
I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all… — Maryon Pearson Copy Share Image
If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable.… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image