June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Not too long after 'OITB' debuted, I was at NewFest and I saw 'Black Is Blue,' a short film by Cheryl Dunye… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It seared her senses; it made her feel alive, even as it sucked that life away - and she kept coming back… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red;… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to… — Trent Jamieson Copy Share Image
“7. But what kind of love is it, really? Don’t fool yourself and call it sublimity. Admit that you have stood in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
The coaches hate each other, the players hate each other... There's no calling each other after the game and inviting each other… — Hines Ward Copy Share Image
When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck… — Gary David Goldberg Copy Share Image
I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center… — Liz Kessler Copy Share Image
Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
If she were (looking into my eyes), she’d have seen how absolutely floored I was the first time I finally, truly saw… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
