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KELLY JONES Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
BERTHA VON SUTTNER Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Acade...
DALE T. MORTENSEN Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR. Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously inv...
P. J. O'ROURKE The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, direct...
HERBERT A. SIMON You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect fr...
HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I...
CHARLES DICKENS I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad ...
ROXANE GAY Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterpri...
CHARLES H. TOWNES I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious di...
PETER C. DOHERTY I am one of those who think, like MARIE CURIE I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nob...
HOWARD FLOREY Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER Those with the most eloquent explanation for their aberrations are the least likely to get better.
ALAN ROBERT NEAL Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they comm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The real you is not sad, angry, depressed, ashamed, hurt, bitter or lost. These things are not real....
SUE FITZMAURICE People who are left out of these shows feel that they are left out of the writing of history and tha...
ALEXIS SMITH What the creation is, what it is like, what its transformations are, where the source is, who that c...
BHAGAVAD GITA I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
PATRICE LECONTE They feel like it's not possible to succeed, like these traps are so common because it's impossible ...
ANDREW STELLMAN One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stup...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what peopl...
BAUVARD Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his gen...
ABDUS SALAM [It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspir...
JEFF ABBOTT There are two reasons why people fail in life. One, when they think it is impossible and the other i...
VAISHNAVI YERRAM The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the r...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... It will be impossible for us to maintain the health of the organism called the earth unless we feel ...
ILCHI LEE They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; the...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We are going to file a brief opposing their motion to stay all court proceedings unless they allow t...
DMITRI IGLITZIN The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of whic...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ...
DEYTH BANGER I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining momen...
KELLY KEATON Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS I did a 10-page treatment, then started working on biographies for each of the characters. By the ti...
FERNANDO EIMBCKE Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
PAUL STANLEY Some of these club coaches are abusing these kids and asking impossible things from them. Coaches pr...
DAVE SICA Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL They are also known as cop killers. And this is what disturbs me most about these types of organizat...
ED KUBO You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. A...
JOHN WOODEN You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. A...
JOHN WOODEN We can't even file a brief unless they reinstate the appeal,
WENDY MURPHY I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing f...
FERNANDO PESSOA The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at w...
GEORGE ORWELL You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.
ROBERT GALBRAITH No need to feel shame for what you are.
DEYTH BANGER Most kids and adults, unless they are seasoned, energy-expending athletes, don't need them.
DEBORAH WILCOX JAMIESON John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first...
JONATHAN DEE I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
RIGOBERTA MENCHU I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is s...
SUN MYUNG MOON Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away....
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES These are the most decisive elections for us that Israel has ever held. I feel as though I'm on tria...
EMILY AMRUSY Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they cri...
ROSANNA ARQUETTE I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed ar...
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
WOLE SOYINKA The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
BILLY GRAHAM Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling ot...
THOMAS SOWELL This generation is not like baby boomers. They are more reserved about writing about themselves. But...
ED WILKS Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.
GARY SHTEYNGART Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physic...
PETER AGRE What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of ...
ROSA LUXEMBURG These are people who are alienated and don't really identify with their fellow residents in any posi...
JACK LEVIN We feel we have solved these issues and feel they are largely behind us.
COLLEEN HEALY I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
DANNY BOYLE For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
ALISON BECHDEL For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to som...
ALEKSA PALLADINO I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role ...
GILDA RADNER I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role...
GILDA RADNER To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know,...
TOM WOLFE I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the lis...
GERMAINE GREER I'm not writing music that's composed for the penguins, ... I'm writing music for the people watchin...
ALEX WURMAN The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it t...
THOM YORKE My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
FAITH HILL Yet however trying they are, it's in these moments of deep sadness that I feel most like myself. I'v...
TOBIAS WADE He's like my brother. It's great to have him here with me. All the guys on the team are important to...
CAMILLE MOUTE Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, ...
SOPHIE HANNAH I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did ...
DAVID A. ADLER I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the...
WILLIAM STYRON The ones that get me the most, the hardest ones, are probably the moms I'm interviewing that have lo...
BOB CALVERT What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered sta...
MOBY Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warni...
ELIZABETH THORNTON I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at t...
MICK EBELING For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me...
AIMEE BENDER I have found that most vets are not into helping nonprofit organizations like this one unless they a...
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
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ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I cast to earth a seed.
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The people s...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER Man know much more than he understands.
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ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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ALFRED ADLER In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s...
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ALFRED ADLER It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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ALFRED ADLER The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of t...
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ALFRED ADLER A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an...
ALFRED ADLER I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assem...
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
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ALFRED ADLER To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
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ALFRED KASTLER Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi...
ALFRED ADLER By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...
ALFRED ADLER Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
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ALFRED MOLINA When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the struc...
ALFRED HERSHEY O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON The quiet sense of something lost
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ALFRED HAYES It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandabl...
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which mi...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with phot...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the na...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH