The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My money buys me the freedom not to be a member of the corporate structure. And I certainly don't feel guilty or… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him.… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown,… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends!… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I ran to Rachel [Comey]'s show and on the way I found a potted tree - an umbrella tree - on the… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was… — Choi Sung-bong Copy Share Image
I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It's Will who ought to be sorry." Jem's eyes darkened. "We shall throw him out onto the streets," he proclaimed. "I promise… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image