Chiefly Def Quotes

#1. If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

Laurie Anderson

#2. Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form, - for the mind is like the body.

John Henry Newman

#3. And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what ... to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

Nicholas Stoller

#4. The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

John Fowles

#5. It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've been calling my Jenny Craig consultant a lot, but I'm pretty sure I'm the first spokesperson whom they've considered filing a restraining order against.

Ross Mathews

#6. It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed - to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

Thein Sein

#8. I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

Bobby Fischer

#9. I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

Jodie Sweetin

#10. As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.

Jonas Gahr Store

#11. My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Taylor Caldwell