Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on… — Texas Guinan Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
It's just the way it is. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, and Aspen endlessly loves America. It's how the… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
My sky diving experience was spectacular, to say the least. The number of safety measures and repeated cross checks make it safer.… — Erica Fernandes Copy Share Image
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between,… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“ My Floating Sea " "Pastel colors reflect in my opening eyes and draw my gaze to a horizon where the waters… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning - ideally decades - that… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes.… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh,… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is?… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight.… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“MY EFFORTS FAIL I DON'T CRY, EVEN I CAN'T CATCH DREAMS SKY, I DIDN'T GIVE UP N ALWAYS TRY, MY MIND QUESTION… — merlin8thomas Copy Share Image
I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I began with 'A Mouthful Of Sky' and I enjoyed that a lot. So, when I started getting offers for Hindi television,… — Milind Soman Copy Share Image
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is not the limit.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
