New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not… — Goo Hye Sun Copy Share Image
I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck… — Paul Blobel Copy Share Image
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
The old time strongmen used to lift huge weights just enough to clear a sheet of paperit is in this tradition that… — Frank Zane Copy Share Image
I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director -… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Sorry to disappoint the liberals who tuned in tonight to gloat about Obama's lead in every poll, but I am not worried.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
