I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
“Tyson okay?” I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He’s fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a lightheartedness to the subject, in… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more… — P. M. H. Atwater Copy Share Image
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any… — Isabel Bishop Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I'm not really a conspiracy nut, but I think if I went down a slightly different route in my life instead of… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk… — Martin Lawrence Copy Share Image