All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
I've taken care of it," I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with. — John Green Copy Share Image
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad. — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are… — Andy Reid Copy Share Image
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I have kissed all the girls I worked with! I'm just a very affectionate person, I love to hug and kiss people… — Maureen McCormick Copy Share Image
Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
YouTubers are not taken as seriously as the written press, which is strange. — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession,… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
