The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a about seven or eight; I think it was seven. My brother said "I want to start acting,"… — Willow Shields Copy Share Image
I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part demon. You understood that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like?… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people,… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives.… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
You know me and I have a pension. It provides some comfort but only some. It's still not enough to live off… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
When I was trying to upload my song that I had just recorded when I started rapping, I didn't know what name… — Sexyy Red Copy Share Image
I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was… — Janusz Kaminski Copy Share Image
What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and… — David Small Copy Share Image
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan,… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or… — Seth Copy Share Image
I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision.… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine:… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of.… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making… — William Gibson Copy Share Image