Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel!… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output… In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that,… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.… — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thank you, restlessness, as challenging a traveling companion as there could be. In the end, my embrace of you was what sent… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of… — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ...… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image