Overflow Famous Quotes & Sayings

Being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. — Janeane Garofalo

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present — Charles Baudelaire

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace. — Robert Montgomery

A human heart breaks harder when it's dropped from a greater height. — Jodi Picoult

The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts. — Philip K. Dick

I know there's something here. I know you want more. Tell me ... and it's yours. — S.C. Stephens

If we're not careful, we can replace study of the Bible with study about the Bible. — Anonymous

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. — E. O. Wilson