I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I… — Jennifer Hale Copy Share Image
It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim… — John Kao Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you… — Crispian Mills Copy Share Image
