And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own… — Mark Boyle Copy Share Image
Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If a woman says, I love myself; I love my body; I'm comfortable with my life, comfortable with my mistakes, and I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia 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 had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height,… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 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
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back… — Daniel Altman Copy Share Image
When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate… — Robert Benchley 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
I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard (Lewis) is. I know who Nick (Collison) and Luke… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image