I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Penelope In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time!… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
“All my life I've always come back to one thing, my need to feel free and the need to feel the breeze,… — Jess Brynjulson Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“When she came back down, Sam and Astrid had arrived. Sam hugged Dekka, and the two of them stayed that way for… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
