True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I'm a Virgo and the sign is a virgin. So when I was 16, I got the word virgin tattooed on my… — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image