Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as... →
Teju Cole
The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows... →
Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that... →
Tom Cole
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a... →
Jonathan Coleman
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum... →
Ornette Coleman
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we... →
Robert Collier
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is... →
Billy Collins
The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being... →
Gail Collins