I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Terrorism,” said the rental. “We prefer not to use that term,” said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it.… — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
Got a zip that is catching and not running smoothly? It often happens with old metal zips but it doesn't always mean… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
“admit it, man. He watched the shadows dance to the flicker of his candle, giving himself just a little more time before… — Pamela Aidan Copy Share Image
He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the… — Lisa Vanderpump Copy Share Image
The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
“We burned the midnight oil making love, even if it was just kissing and touching, for hours. It could be a single… — L.A. Witt Copy Share Image
Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as… — John Selden Copy Share Image
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your… — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Copy Share Image
After college, I moved to Paris to work as a paralegal. I hadn't been feeling well throughout most of my senior year… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
“It’s a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my… — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
