A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
“Your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to- it's the first one who beaks it.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak. — Richard Madeley Copy Share Image
The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in… — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished… — May Kendall Copy Share Image
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Her, cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
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