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- It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it…
- That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
- About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a…
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they…
- I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical,…
- Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor…
- A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
- All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
- Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
- She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.
- Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that…
- A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
- kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness…
- I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets…
- Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the…
- If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who…
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
- If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story…
- When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the…
- This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care…
- ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always…
- Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash