History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have these lacy shirts that look kind of like my grandma's curtains that I wear. — Borns Copy Share Image
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
