When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was… — Frank Costello Copy Share Image
The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done… — John Tenniel Copy Share Image
Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the departed are stronger than they were when they were here. Their memory - or what we think we remember about… — E. O. Chirovici Copy Share Image
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life:… — Bible Copy Share Image
The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule… — Homer Copy Share Image
So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.” — Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone Copy Share Image
Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what… — Frank Costello Copy Share Image
“There’s something magical about a departed headache. It’s a shame the joy fades and you can’t appreciate not having one every moment… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence,… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception.' I guess I… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
The darkness has departed and the night stars have passed by, you have touched my life like never before and I cannot… — James Wallace Copy Share Image