Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?
Katharine Hamnett
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
Giada De Laurentiis
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.
Christopher Hampton
This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.
Payne Stewart
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
Kevin McKidd
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.
Jo Nesbo
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
Han Suyin
Mr. Geithner is an excellent minister. We have a good personal relationship.
Wolfgang Schauble
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.
Tony Hancock
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack Obama
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
Mandy Moore
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
Kurt Russell
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Peter Handke
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Terry Hands
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
John Shadegg
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Charles Handy
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
Peggy Noonan
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Amartya Sen
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
Ernest Istook
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
Jesse Ventura
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
David Ogden Stiers
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Robert Collier
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Junius
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Richard Hell
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