She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals, — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood. — Jay Wright Forrester Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
It's something I deal with to this day, a fear of falling back into that darkness. I see athletes go through a… — Clara Copy Share Image
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
