If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay… — Susan Brigden Copy Share Image
What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
“I still remember the winter sky that evening. Whenever I worked in my sea garden and I saw a sunset like that,… — rachel joyce Copy Share Image
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I have done business in China for 25 years, so I know that in order to get China to cooperate with us,… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I… — Rheta Grimsley Johnson Copy Share Image
As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods… — Amy J. Berg Copy Share Image
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
