If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties,… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world.… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be… — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail;… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe?… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Something bashed against the submarine with such a tremendous force that the vessel rocked violently from side to side, throwing people back… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Why the sea?' he asked. I smiled, meeting his eyes and seeing the colour I was describing. 'Because it's such a magical… — Angel McGregor Copy Share Image
Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon.… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at… — Paulo Coelho 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
