We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
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Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than… — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake.… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
“Now the evening's at its noon, its meridian. The outgoing tide has simmered down, and there's a lull-like the calm in the… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
First, let me just say that I flew in from Los Angeles last evening. And the plane was absolutely filled with women… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook,… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
“Evening. The dead sheathed in the earth's crust and turning the slow diurnal of the earth's wheel, at peace with eclipse, asteroid,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in… — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ...… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one -… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image