Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I served in the Army. I worked at blue-collar jobs. I washed dishes and bused tables. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Netflix is like sitting at the cool kids' table. Netflix is amazing. We're the biggest fans of not only working there but… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's… — Elizabeth Dole Copy Share Image
There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image