The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade,… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with.… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live,… — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that… — Mehcad Brooks Copy Share Image
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
