There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I… — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What about Isabelle?" Simon asked. "Where is she?" The humor, such as it was, left Jace's expression. "She won't come out of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn't expect in jobs that… — Kelly McCreary Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
As goofy as it sounds, I try to sing in the morning. It's hard both to sing and to maintain a grouchy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole.… — Richard Lloyd Copy Share Image
You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up,… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
“We walked in silence towards Swinica, beyond which the road, worn by long-distance lorries, twisted and turned; we walked slowly, like one… — Wioletta Greg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I… — Junior Brown Copy Share Image
You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. "I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a… — John Requa Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
