Audiences are open to experimentation these days - that's a boon for me. — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic.… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
