The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.
Elle Fanning
While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?
Melody Carlson
Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.
Taylor Swift
Reason has built the modern world. It is a precious but also a fragile thing, which can be corroded by apparently harmless irrationality. We must favor verifiable evidence over private feeling. Otherwise we leave ourselves vulnerable to those who would obscure the truth.
Richard Dawkins
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
Gayle Forman
I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.
Jimmy Carr
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
Toni Morrison
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.
Lev Yilmaz
I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.
Ann Romney
My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
Edward Gibbon
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
Christian Bale
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.
Garth Stein
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
Andy Murray
And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will shine.
Chad Sugg
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
Gary Lockwood
The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.
Admiral Yi Sun Shin
There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
Louis C. K.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
William Westmoreland
Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
Nile Rodgers
It is in this darkness that I have found all light somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.
Coco J. Ginger
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
Gregory David Roberts
There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.
Katie Singer
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
Truman Capote
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
Heinz R. Pagels
There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.
Clara Kramer
The issue is what is the social science atom.
Allan Bloom
What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
Sam Sheppard
The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.
Joseph Bean
I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.
Erin Gray
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
John Updike
For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
Benoit Mandelbrot
?If heart filled with purity,then mind found the beauty.
Toba Beta
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge
Erwin Knoll
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
Pam Houston
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