Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar
And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace
Cassandra Clare
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare
Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
Samuel Johnson
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .
Stephen King
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel McAdams
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
Jodi Picoult
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger
My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.
Rodney Dangerfield
Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.
Kahlil Gibran
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poetsthemselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.
C.S. Lewis
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy.
Stephen Richards
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
Andrea Martin
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert W. Service
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.
John Green
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
Donald Judd
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes
Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
Bai Ling
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.
Miranda Richardson
One cat leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a standerby can judge of.
Jane Austen
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
Miriam Makeba
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef Albers
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates
Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
Jerry Saltz
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
Robert Kiyosaki
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
Studs Terkel
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
Margaret Mitchell
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