Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . .… — Manny Laureano Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators… — Peter Turnley Copy Share Image
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career.… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while.… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
“Lincoln?” she asked. “Yes?” “Do you believe in love at first sight?” He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances.… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image