Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“So I might be over two thousand miles from my next hot meal, cold beer or decent shower, but at least I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
“I still don't understand," Eddie whispered. "What good came from your death?" "You lived," the Blue Man answered. "But we barely knew… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is… — Jim Sinclair Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Hey...you okay?" I recognized the voice-how had my dreams known his voice?-but when he crouched down next to me, I skittered away.… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“Kalina stood staring a moment after he had gone, trying to piece together what had happened. A stranger – a strange smell,… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth.… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
With an age difference comes a great gap in cultural references, and so on. It's not all about race and gender. It… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a… — David Dudley Field II Copy Share Image
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“At all events, when I look back upon the boy I was, I see the beginnings of a real person who fades… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives… — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The film industry is an awkward business - you get together with strangers, get to know them very well and then you… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
“I’d married a near stranger because I felt like I had no choice. When you’re young, you have more choices than you’ll… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I think when we were developing Season 1 - and to Netflix's credit, they sort of pressured us to make sure we… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Crazy, isn't it? How one day he is your future husband and the next he is a stranger? It all seemed to… — Leslie Copy Share Image