And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
For years, I never thought I needed a short game. Finally I just decided to do something about it. I needed to… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“An Evening Air I go out in the grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation.… — Samar Sen Copy Share Image
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
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
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha… — John Donne 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
As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way. What you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image