If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer… — Booker T. Jones Copy Share Image
I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let… — Dan Wieden Copy Share Image
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half."… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is… — Moby Copy Share Image
Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices… The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
No one comes unless they're drawn by the voice of desire that leads em along, to the redemption of what went wrong… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
When I played Candy Darling in 'I Shot Andy Warhol,' that was easy to play that part. They made me into a… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image