Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the… — James Norman Hall Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success,… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud… ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am,… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Even after marrying Mallika, I feel that I am her boyfriend. In fact, I believe this feeling enhances the charm and fun… — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. I did a lot of research on him too but during the promotions, I focused… — Seungri Copy Share Image
