I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes,… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly… — Moby Copy Share Image
My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean… — Hans Børli Copy Share Image
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like eyes in the look of a dog, like a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“There are such moments in life: one unexpectedly discovers that perfection exists, that it, too, is a tiny sphere traveling in time,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image