“Let's get something straight. I'm supposed to be the bad guy. I will always disappoint you. Your parents will hate me. You… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a… — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“She’d looked so beautiful standing there, gazing out to sea. Crimson had once told him a tale about Sirens, magical creatures that… — Jade Parker Copy Share Image
Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don’t… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
“I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out… — Mike Duncan Copy Share Image
