Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically,… — Gertrude Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots… — Georges Courteline Copy Share Image
It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures."… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
I always knew my sexual prowess has the power to save lives." "You can turn anything into an ego boost, can't you?"… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers… — Michael Eisen Copy Share Image
I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
