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 reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
What's nice about the rain is you don't feel you have to live up to anything. Everything around you is so grey… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In a platonic and boring fashion, is it all right if I share your fire until me clothes dry out? I have… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I… — Gillian Flynn 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
... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and… — Charles Frazier 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
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
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
“But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“hope’s like damp – however much you try to keep it out there’s always a little gets in.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The air was thick with humidity, but instead of feeling damp, it seemed lush. Like the whole city had just stepped out… — M.L.N. Hanover Copy Share Image
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
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