Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would… — Max Weber 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
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
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
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
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of… — David Lehman 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
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane 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
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
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
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr 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
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
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 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 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
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
Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte 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
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
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
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
“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
'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
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
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
“Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You… — G.A. Aiken 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
“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
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would… — Wallace Shawn 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
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
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Great flocks of raindrops swelled and folded, and fell upon her like insects to a feast. She hadn’t thought to bring a… — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
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