Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Despite trials, worldly confusion, and caustic voices, we can trust in the Lord and go forward with happy hearts, knowing that with… — Elaine L. Jack Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
But you'll notice, you will notice that Russia and China, invariably at the United Nations, move to block American action, to repress… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess.… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from… — David Almond Copy Share Image
If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
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