I once lost a role because I was told I am fair. They were looking for a village woman who is darker. — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that… — David Amram Copy Share Image
in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning. — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Rajasthan is a place I visit very often. My grandparents live in the village called Kulhariyon Ka Baas, and I am originally… — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
I was the youngest girl among my siblings, a simple village girl, who perhaps was luckier than other siblings as I have… — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I guess my earliest football memories are of playing in the street and also the little pitches at school. I joined the… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
I'm not worried that tomorrow there will be a battalion outside your Greenwich Village apartment. I'm worried about things like the McCain… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
My tenth-ever gig was in an arena, which is mad... I remember being backstage with multiple artists there and someone had had… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
"Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before.… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland.… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really… — Mike D Copy Share Image
“Joe looked around urgently. They could either head towards the village, into the woods, or to the manor. “Yes, we need to… — Paul Moxham Copy Share Image
“There's a big difference between school formals and village dances that take place in fantasy worlds, but I'm pretty sure Easton already… — Nicki Chapelway Copy Share Image
Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the… — Frances Densmore Copy Share Image
I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me. — Josh Pais Copy Share Image
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue,… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking… — Kassie DePaiva Copy Share Image
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
They film 'Midsomer Murders' near our village, so we joke that if ever there was a murder we'd call for DCI Barnaby. — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image