Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. — John Milton Copy Share Image
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned… — Luigi Pulci Copy Share Image
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
There's going to be a new cable-TV channel for dogs. Dogs don't even watch TV. But the schedule came out today. And… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
