Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder. It seemed to him that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When… — Nicole Miller Copy Share Image
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons,… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow… — Alberto Alvaro Ríos Copy Share Image
“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“...I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“The flowered trim on the hems [of the dress] seemed superfluous, even frivolous, but at the same time it comforted her, as… — Gael Baudino Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image