I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover. — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal. — Om Puri Copy Share Image
I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what… — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
