There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
As she stood down below him on the street,it seemed impossible that she'd connected with him as she had,but then,the phone was… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and… — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was in my teens and I was going through a bit of a phase, drinking a lot and doing E tablets… — Damien Dempsey Copy Share Image
“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save… — William James Copy Share Image
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem… — Guillermo Diaz Copy Share Image
Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
My car was broken into four times before it was stolen. That can drive you nuts - the repetition. I'd wake up… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real… — Michael Todd Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image