Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, -… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning.… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“What you call your personality, you know?—it’s not the actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It’s more like a flame. A flame… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber… — John Muir Copy Share Image
O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings… — Jack White Copy Share Image
We did a musical called 'The Wind in the Willows Christmas' in Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. I played… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping… — Scott Holman Copy Share Image
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on.… — Marc Cohn Copy Share Image