Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just… — Lynne Rossetto Kasper Copy Share Image
[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with… — Jack London Copy Share Image
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper… — David Seaman Copy Share Image
We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a… — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
“Every shop and stall in the caves had different lighting mechanisms to help distinguish themselves from the others. The caves were a… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is… — J-Ax Copy Share Image
You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The… — Chris Sanders Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The caves were dark. Dark and slimy and wet. I didn’t like it except for that part with darkness – I liked… — Mark Mulle Copy Share Image
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image