“Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Beauty has got nothing to do anything with eyes, it is only heart that recognises it everything beautifully. Even a blind person… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves,… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat… — Andy Lally Copy Share Image
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How… — C.V. Dreesman Copy Share Image
“In France her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind to fasten it down completely… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I've seen shows where comedians cracked about someone not clapping, then realized they've only got one hand, or joked about someone wearing… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear,… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
I still like 'Die Hard 1,' '2,' and '3' because I know what happens, but I watched '4' after I went blind… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“In horse racing they put these slats on either side of the horse's head, blocking the creature's peripheral vision. They're called blinders.… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
