Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I first met my husband on the day we got married, when I was 20. I moved to be with him in… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and… — Chris Coleman Copy Share Image
We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should… — George Will Copy Share Image
All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It happened while I was filming “Water for Elephants in which my partner is Reese Witherspoon. We had a scene with elephants… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you:… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut.… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage,… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below… — James Keller Copy Share Image
The second show [Judas Priest] there was a point where I stood back. We had a 40-foot ramp that went out into… — Richie Faulkner Copy Share Image
Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of… — Homer Copy Share Image
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
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