The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded,… — Jerry Reed Copy Share Image
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
