Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what… — John Piper Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook… — Karen Black Copy Share Image
Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
