Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out,… — Edith Pattou Copy Share Image
This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers.… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
“Lost' Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you… — David Wagoner Copy Share Image
“There's a stranger in a car Driving down your street Acts like he knows who you are Slaps his hand on the… — Marc Cohn Copy Share Image
She is fragile, she is soft, she is weaker, she is afraid. All around is a man-created world, and she is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
“What is it that allows human beings to see through each other's pretendings? For I understood quite clearly in that moment that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in,… — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by… — Sasha Azevedo Copy Share Image
“As you approach Carol, she stands with her back to you, engaged in a conversation. Eager to make a joke about the… — Isaac Lidsky Copy Share Image
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“And that's when we knew we had been right all along: Our parents and teachers couldn't have warned us about this beast,… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
“It was like staring into the face of a familiar stranger. You know, that person you see in a crowd and swear… — P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast Copy Share Image
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel… — Claire McCaskill 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
Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
In places such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia people depend on each other a lot more. We can often be quite detached in… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“As a child, my mother told me not to talk to strangers. I did my best to obey. She hadn’t realized that… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“At a Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast, two of my friends and I were standing in a circle talking. A stranger approached,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
