Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce...
DEBORAH WILES I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or pain...
DEBORAH WILES Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!
DEBORAH WILES A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like lov...
DEBORAH WILES When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in t...
JASON WILES I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means th...
ANDREW WILES Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
ANDREW WILES I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics t...
ANDREW WILES I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously come...
JASON WILES I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that m...
ANDREW WILES I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize tha...
ANDREW WILES I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream...
ANDREW WILES I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
ANDREW WILES I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
ANDREW WILES However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
ANDREW WILES Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I woul...
ANDREW WILES Fermat said he had a proof.
ANDREW WILES But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
ANDREW WILES Always try the problem that matters most to you.
ANDREW WILES I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routi...
JASON WILES I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely ...
JASON WILES It doesn't eliminate access. What it eliminates is some level of convenience.
SUSIE WILES Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for ...
ANDREW WILES Where is the record that would support this? Where is the hard work that would be done? It's a big i...
BEN WILES While the heating season is over, people are still getting heating bills and they're still falling s...
BEN WILES The basic customer is being ignored.
BEN WILES Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
ANDREW WILES The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the proble...
ANDREW WILES I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every d...
JASON WILES I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my th...
WILL WILES It's very much a last resort. The goal is to see if we can reach a meeting of the minds or meet some...
SUSIE WILES I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the bes...
ANDREW WILES I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reac...
ANDREW WILES That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
ANDREW WILES I tell you, I thought it was going to be a lot closer. I think they outspent me 20 to 1. I'm a littl...
DOUG WILES I've got a lot of hope for this district. I think this is the turning point for us. I think the vote...
DOUG WILES I think we need to address the elementary and middle schools first. Those are safety issues that the...
DOUG WILES To do that, you've got to reach out to everyone, everyone, and mean it.
DOUG WILES A lot of people can say what they want, but people are really interested in making this district wor...
DOUG WILES It was technology gone out of control.
SUSIE WILES I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
ANDREW WILES They want to win. It's finally coming around.
HOLLY WILES She's really stepped out and become a leader.
HOLLY WILES Getting a chance to test what you've got against teams you don't normally play (is an advantage).
HOLLY WILES For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishi...
DEBORAH TANNEN One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
DEBORAH EISENBERG To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
DEBORAH EISENBERG For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk...
DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided...
DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues.
DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior.
DEBORAH EISENBERG We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
DEBORAH TANNEN The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made ...
DEBORAH TANNEN Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur...
DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l...
DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ...
DEBORAH BULL I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill...
DEBORAH MOGGACH Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only...
DEBORAH REBER Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ...
DEBORAH DAY Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
DEBORAH DAY Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us...
DEBORAH DAY Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
DEBORAH TANNEN Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ...
DEBORAH TANNEN For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that ca...
DEBORAH TANNEN When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
DEBORAH NORVILLE There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that im...
DEBORAH TANNEN I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir...
DEBORAH HARKNESS I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words...
DEBORAH TANNEN I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
DEBORAH NORVILLE I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the las...
DEBORAH SAMPSON I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an err...
DEBORAH SAMPSON I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to...
DEBORAH RANEY The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have e...
DEBORAH NORVILLE I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
DEBORAH NORVILLE There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
DEBORAH NORVILLE There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
DEBORAH NORVILLE Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
DEBORAH NORVILLE It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE Religious people are happier.
DEBORAH NORVILLE What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to grati...
DEBORAH NORVILLE I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing o...
DEBORAH NORVILLE I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they...
DEBORAH NORVILLE If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Nu...
DEBORAH NORVILLE Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
DEBORAH NORVILLE My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
DEBORAH NORVILLE There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
DEBORAH NORVILLE 'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE When my mother passed away I was 20.
DEBORAH NORVILLE I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
DEBORAH NORVILLE I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious...
DEBORAH NORVILLE So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
DEBORAH NORVILLE Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
DEBORAH NORVILLE Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You...
DEBORAH MAILMAN A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like...
DEBORAH TANNEN The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
DEBORAH EISENBERG My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb...
DEBORAH MAILMAN As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
DEBORAH SAMPSON Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with ...
DEBORAH TANNEN In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give con...
DEBORAH TANNEN For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an...
DEBORAH TANNEN The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo...
DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d...
DEBORAH COX I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno...
DEBORAH MAILMAN God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.
DEBORAH RANEY Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain...
DEBORAH REBER Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.
DEBORAH DAY If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.
DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th...
DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th...
DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and...
DEBORAH MOGGACH Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Jud...
DEBORAH SAMPSON On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the p...
DEBORAH SAMPSON An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the l...
DEBORAH TANNEN Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because...
DEBORAH TANNEN November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me w...
DEBORAH SAMPSON For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apol...
DEBORAH TANNEN If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be a...
DEBORAH TANNEN Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80...
DEBORAH BULL Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,...
DEBORAH KASS I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early...
DEBORAH TANNEN When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when...
DEBORAH COX Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independ...
DEBORAH TANNEN It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's...
DEBORAH SAMPSON There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ...
DEBORAH HARKNESS What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragi...
DEBORAH SAMPSON I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremen...
DEBORAH TANNEN Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious...
DEBORAH TANNEN When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothe...
DEBORAH TANNEN Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears.
DEBORAH BRODIE Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be...
DEBORAH BRODIE What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends.
DEBORAH BRODIE Count the cost of everything.
Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourse...
DEBORAH BRODIE Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.
DEBORAH BRODIE It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t...
DEBORAH COX The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the ...
DEBORAH TANNEN There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,...
DEBORAH MAILMAN American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mo...
DEBORAH TANNEN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s...
DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex...
DEBORAH COX The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.
DEBORAH TANNEN In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversatio...
DEBORAH TANNEN The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.
DEBORAH ABBOTT The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec...
DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel.
DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel,
DEBORAH ABBOTT My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out sm...
DEBORAH LEVY In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell...
DEBORAH TANNEN I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di...
DEBORAH COX I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous ...
DEBORAH SAMPSON One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if...
DEBORAH TANNEN The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.
DEBORAH DAY The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -...
DEBORAH TANNEN I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up ...
DEBORAH RANEY The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as m...
DEBORAH NORVILLE Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife...
DEBORAH HARKNESS A government that operates under the guise of capitalism does not necessarily mean it is free of the...
DEBORAH SIMPSON Ninety percent of board members said they were there to make a difference in the organization.
DEBORAH HECHINGER Accessories in general add warmth to a room, but you can switch out your accessories to showcase onl...
DEBORAH CARPENTER I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious reade...
DEBORAH HARKNESS In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treati...
DEBORAH TALL We always see a few orders for wedding invitations with wedding dates around college graduation time...
DEBORAH GOMIA My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than thr...
DEBORAH SAMPSON U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria a...
DEBORAH WHITE I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist,...
DEBORAH COX