We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness… — A Fine Frenzy Copy Share Image
He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
“In the dark, in no starlight at all, the blocks hurtled invisibly by, ejected into the night air; he heard them break… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. Sometimes it seems like a… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
They say you don't want to know how sausage is made. Book coverage is like sausage in that way: better not to… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about these moments you find, like when you're driving alone at night by yourself, or you… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“ Alice in Darkness Forget tears. Chasing white animals with timepieces in this drug-trip landscape can only lead to more of same.… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Really there's different scales of stories. Sometimes you want to tell one that 20, 30, 40, 50 million people will want to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the… — Gypsy Rose Lee Copy Share Image
On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Last night, we had the first gubernatorial debate. Some people are criticizing Schwarzenegger for not going. They say Arnold goes around telling… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Observation" If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
People always talk about what they do the night before, but to be totally honest what you do the night before isn't… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image