...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Moon Bloodgood is so dedicated, and I was impressed with her dedication. She was put into some grueling situations - cold, freezing,… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Your perceptions are derived from your feelings and your ability to be yourself, to own and trust yourself, and to say what… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
“man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national… — Malachi Ritscher Copy Share Image
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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance… — Horace Copy Share Image
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and… — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image