I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer… — Julius Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon… — Edwin Arthur Hall Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Would you like to do | in the heart of the grip to give you a when a thrust and tight-fisted from — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that. — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image