I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while.… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
