For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a… — John Requa Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and… — Rachel Hurd-Wood Copy Share Image
Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we'll miss something important. There is a growing movement… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up,… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
