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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of… — Allan Border Copy Share Image
So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when… — Paul Mazursky Copy Share Image
These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland,… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool -… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive.… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given… — William James Copy Share Image
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
![“My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.” quote by Paul McCartney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b4/paul-mccartney-987_asteroids_my-record-producer-david-kahne-said-the_739215.jpg)
![“Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.” quote by Tim Heidecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/81d/tim-heidecker-10977_approach_most-books-that-come-out-with-a-comedy-l_724157.jpg)
![“Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that…” quote by Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/292/mark-steyn-1844_birmingham_byrd-the-former-klu-sic-klux-klan-kleagl_856828.jpg)
![“Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?” quote by Shirley Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b9/shirley-jackson-1526_care_dad-and-i-did-not-care-at-all-for-your-s_1038040.jpg)
![“I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36f/nat-hentoff-1615_atheist_i-think-at-least-two-of-my-kids-and-i-m_3187088.jpg)
