Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair… — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have… — Sheridan Morley Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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