“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years ago, the cultural critic Greil Marcus wrote of Jimi's performance of our national anthem as "his great NO to the… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
“Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Your short understanding, your clipped mind, your hollow heart, will make more of mankind than it has the power to become. Make… — Johannes von Saaz Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Sometimes answers are hard to realize ... "Because people spend years looking for deep and complicated answers or hidden messages. I guess… — Joan Singleton Copy Share Image
“At the end of the forest the guardian angel pointed to the village and said: ‘There you will find your mother. She… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“[F]ollowers of Christ think differently than others. . . . Where do we look for the premises with which we begin our… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In theater they want to put you on a contract a year in advance and I don't really like that. That's the… — Johan Philip Asbaek Copy Share Image
“The Company We Keep So now we have seen that our cells are in relationship with our thoughts, feelings, and each other.… — Sondra Barrett Copy Share Image
“Riker’s gaze shifted down. To her throat. Then his mouth shifted down. To her throat. Boris’s face flashed in front of her… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
I try to be fairly apolitical for the most part, but where I was willing to step boldly over that line, was… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
“Back, a few years ago, when Benny Dawkins was learning the Doubly Inverted Reverse Swan, the trick that won him third place… — Mark Schweizer Copy Share Image
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.… — DIVYA Copy Share Image
“. . . Over twenty years ago, a group of individuals from several different worlds gathered at a discreet location in our… — Marshall Vian Summers Copy Share Image
“Things have becone even more mysterious. We have recently discovered that when we make observations at still larger scales, corresponding to billions… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“The "Avenue," so called by the Newbridge people, was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
I'm pretty mellow, and I stay around South Pasadena and Pasadena a lot because I'm a homebody who's fine with dinner and… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
“Our story begins eight years ago when Ms. Jacobs was living in London with Mr. McAllister. However, she had to leave the… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Maybe. Maybe not. Look, the Latin name for this fish is Carcharodon carcharias, okay? The closest ancestor we can find for it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Knowing what causes differentiation in human skin pigmentation, fascinating though that is, does not furnish a satisfactory explanation for the phenomenon of… — Richard Dunphy Copy Share Image
“Scientists tell us that when time began, fourteen billion years ago, something came from nothing. When you awake to the ground of… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy:… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. And you were… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
“Heed the words of Gautama Buddha, spoken 2,600 years ago: “Do not believe in what you have heard; do not believe in… — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do… — George Devol Copy Share Image
“Years ago, I was yapping to my mother about Buffy and Xena and talking about how great it is that we now… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“America, tell the truth. Tell the truth, even if it means in the end it hurts you. America, don’t believe everything that… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image