An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I’ve found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there,...

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be...

Heaven is under the women feet,” I doubt that; I found it between them.

I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained…when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you…just remember that you are not alone, you are loved,...

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I’m a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with...

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it...

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It’s been a shock.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Yesterday, I got lost.You did too.So what?People get lost all the time.It’s just a matter of finding yourself, and treasuring that.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn’t travel well. I found it very accessible.

Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore...

discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declareA beautiful lofty...

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn’t properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact...

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

It puzzled me that other people hadn’t found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn’t they see it? It still puzzles me.

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink...

I’m really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don’t take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

In the history of physics, every time we’ve looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we’ve found things that we wouldn’t have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually...

When my father was arrested, we didn’t know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Well it’s always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that’s one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it’s not something I’ve found myself...

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I...

It turns out there’s only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with ‘take your elbows off the table’ and ‘pass the ketchup.’ And what researchers have found...

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that...

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he...

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called ‘The Pen,’ and I – you know, I had a crush on a...

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I don’t feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I’ve done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I’ve played lots of different roles, and they’ve connected...

I’ve found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don’t really understand. It simply isn’t the same in...

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the...

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his...

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. Some people are currently looking for it, some people are just figuring it...

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn’t want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a...

I’m still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven’t found that balance yet.

It’s okay to get lost every once in a while, sometimes getting lost is how we find ourselves.