Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odors, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And… — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“With her science-based food guide looking like it had just been rearranged by Picasso, Light was horrified. She predicted—in fervent protests to… — Denise Minger Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes… — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
For breakfast, I always have eggs - whole eggs. I think the fats are really important. I also like turkey bacon and… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still...… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all… — Rick Bayless Copy Share Image
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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