Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background…Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal… — Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant… — Sergei Korolev Copy Share Image
I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image