How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?.

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff..

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the oppos….

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the ….

If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society shoul….

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion..

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew….

A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influen….

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most dif….

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you h….

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual — the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people r….

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue..

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as ….

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing an….

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day..

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible..

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors..

I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said….

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough..