“There is a nocturna for every single person in the world! And each night the nocturni sip dreams from the River of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile -… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and… — Seth Copy Share Image
The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his… — Kabir Copy Share Image
A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“We don’t give our animal friends enough credit for the lives they lead until we try to imagine ourselves in their position.… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most… — Arlene Dahl Copy Share Image
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image