My whole life has been decided by fate.
Sharon Tate
Recitation: by Male by Female
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
Jess Walter
LoveBookProcessTryingYouFall
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
John Green
CharacterGreatDayI AmBodyYoung
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
John Grant
LivePeopleMeWorldSayingThink
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but by their own choice, Puerto Rico is not a state. The relationship has worked well for Puerto Rico - which has strengthened its culture, language and economy - and for the United States, which has helped create in Puerto Rico a showcase of democracy and prosperity for all of Latin America.
Anibal Acevedo Vila
RelationshipCultureDemocracyChoice
Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.
Steve Albini
MusicCultureSomeoneTryingEasy
The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
TravelWholeAbsurdTravellerAgent
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.
Spike Milligan
WarGameThinkingSomeoneCheating
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.
Steven Strogatz
BeautifulHistoryReadingYouGet
You have to come to terms with loving your body.
Rita Ora
YouBodyLovingYour BodyComeYour
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft
EducationWomenLiveGreatMen
I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.
Michael Keaton
WorkFatherMotherTimeChildCare
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
Jonathan Haidt
FamilyMarriageChildrenThinkBlind
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