A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1. — Marcel Hirscher Copy Share Image
Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers — Donald McGavran Copy Share Image
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges. — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm? — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway… There used to be such a dividing line in the country… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
We stock up on popcorn and candy like we're crossing the Sierras, don't we? I'll have a couple of soft pretzels, a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
