Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the… — Selwyn Hughes Copy Share Image
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is… — George Madison Adams Copy Share Image
Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Somethings are better in the dark. That isn't true we can't see in dark. There is nothing to light the way, so… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling… — John Green Copy Share Image
When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Being a part of the Dark and Lovely family is an honor. As a dark and lovely girl, I love what they… — Justine Skye Copy Share Image
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The key to fighting in the dark is no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit… — Joelle Carter Copy Share Image
“Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you,… — Sanaya Roman Copy Share Image
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
You saved me again," she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Neither a light nor a dark lesson is more justified than the other, neither is more powerful, both equal in their opportunity… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior.… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“There are different kinds of darkness,' Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. 'There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I have no hoarding tendencies whatsoever. I'm a purger. I am constantly throwing things out. Like everyone, I have a scary junk… — Paul Marcarelli Copy Share Image
I hated the compound, I hated the dark, dirty room, I hated the filthy bathroom, and I hated everything about it, especially… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earth Contemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the void Strangely… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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