My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music… — Fatih Ak?n Copy Share Image
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
