When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money.… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
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