When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen,… — Eva Mozes Kor Copy Share Image
In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Contrasts The windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windows Shine The precious stones of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening -… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers… — George Will Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
One Valentine's my date texted me in the evening saying: 'Oh there's a buy-one-get-one-free deal at Domino's tonight,' and I genuinely thought… — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
