I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes - you can't dispute it.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What is forever,' I asked. . . . Forever, it appeared, was a word made up by adults so they would not… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“I circled the site before I came in. If there's anyone within five kilometers, I'll eat my quiver." Halt regarded him, eyebrow… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“A second example of this abandonment of fundamental principles can be found in recent trends in the U.S. Supreme Court. Note what… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in… — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This scroll, five hundred years old and more, had been inspired by her favorite, the great Wang Wei, master of landscape art,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Gus couldn't handle it when she cried. For the thirty years of their marriage, when she'd had to cry--which was always at… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. — J. L. Carr Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“And that was it. There was nothing we could do. We just had to stand there, watching as they dropped bombs on… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . .… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
“Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
