Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If [Hillary] Clinton wins, history will also be made: She would be the first female U.S. president, of course, but also the… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect... If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently… — Bob Larson Copy Share Image
I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
I think all three of those men [James Mattis, Mike Pompeo and Rex Tillerson] that you just mentioned, depending on what deal… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
My goal is to create a sustainable long-term business that, we're committed to print, we're rooted in print, but we're expanding into… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey… — David Brenner Copy Share Image
Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to… — T. M. Scanlon Copy Share Image
The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
In terms of Iran and in terms of Saudi Arabia, of course they hate each other. That's no great secret. But John… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image