A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be… — Wilson Bentley Copy Share Image
... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City.… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee. — Andy Townsend Copy Share Image
I don’t need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you’re in it.” He turned… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us... Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed...… — Kazuya Minekura Copy Share Image
If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few. — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image