Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind,… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve… — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important… — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned… — P.W. Catanese Copy Share Image
Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration.… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby… — Joseph Mitchell Copy Share Image
What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
They reached the carriage house. When she turned the knob, he got all critical again. “Why isn’t this door locked?” “It’s Parrish.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless,… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
