Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
With the film, you have a bunch of executive producers, directors, writers, scripts. There's, management, lighting, the union and etc. There are… — Ashanti Copy Share Image
Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence,… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The view I take is that while I'm proud to live in a free and prosperous country, I do believe American is… — Mindy Finn Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
What can I say about a world without Garry Shandling? This is where I need Garry. He would have something pithy, and… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the… — Tsugumi Ohba Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh,… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people,… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which… — John Medina Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people… — Brian Boyle Copy Share Image
