Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful-… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe,… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times.… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.” “New Orleans.” “What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax… — Gail Dines Copy Share Image
Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my… — Clara Blandick Copy Share Image
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and… — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
