Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say'… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place. — Michael S. Smith Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Hang on, did you just call me Angel?” I asked. “If I did?” “I don’t like it.” He grinned. “It stays. Angel.”… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose,… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't… — Chi McBride Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things."… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow.... 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
When you look like I do its hard to get a table for one at Chucky Cheese. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
