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I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard… — Robert Monroe Copy Share Image
If I could take your troubles I would toss them in the Sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It felt really radically uncomfortable. And I was really not sure at first about releasing that body of work. But then the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
A marathon is a like a roller coaster... You might toss your cookies, jump for joy, pass out, or have to close… — Carrie Tollefson Copy Share Image
There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If fate happens to toss… — Matthew Underwood Copy Share Image
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Eve: "What do you want?" Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked… — Bert Greene Copy Share Image
I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about." "I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final… — Alexander Blok Copy Share Image