Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Her gaze on Vane, Patience wished she could see his eyes. His expression was unreadable. Shoulders propped against the stone arch, arms… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled… — John Leo Copy Share Image
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame,… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“Gareth's eyes slipped open. “You make me nervous when you do that.” “Do what?” “Brood. Your brooding is rather loud.” “Oh please.… — Clay Griffith Copy Share Image
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually,… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image