We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned;… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It sometimes feels like the workplace is immune from social upheaval. We go to work and do the best we can, and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work.… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
“George Malcolm: half white, half black, with messy tousled hair, rumpled and tugged between kind of curly and extremely curly. Once, a… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which… — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool… — Andy Spade Copy Share Image
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
