It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.
It is natural to celebrate the winning moments. However, we need to be equally conscious that we protest or resist the instances of cheating either by others or by self.
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
Holding you close to my heart makes me feel special. In this moment, I am free to be me.
Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.
I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
