My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot… — Jean Amery Copy Share Image
But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own… — William R. Looney III Copy Share Image
What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem… — Guillermo Diaz Copy Share Image
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Have you ever been to a picnic? And someone blows up a balloon, and everyone starts tossing it around, and it's always… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to… — Jules Vedrines Copy Share Image
“Alright. Well, in all honesty, I don't feel that what I've done is a crime. And I think it's illogical and irresponsible… — George Copy Share Image
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image