It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her… — Mark P. Shea Copy Share Image
A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
“When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons,… — Deborah Davis Copy Share Image
It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
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