I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain…There was never a place for me in the scheme of things…I had become a living fantasy… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours.… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers like a sound Of golden horns that sang to rest Old bones… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
“He begins to want. He begins to crave. He wants to possess. His mind finally begins to process, to think and plan...He… — Donya Petrock Copy Share Image
There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance. Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, “Booga-wooga!” At least… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
“It’s an enormous sky out there with a lot of stars above it and a lot of folks underneath it, and all… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald… — David Wong Copy Share Image
... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words… beyond these, like an immense… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Sometimes they run. Those are the ones I find out in the dive bars, the sex clubs, the dark reflections in the… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“That’s how the grievin’ becomes after a time. You’ve tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected,… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of… — Leon Chaitow Copy Share Image
“The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“... In this world, darkness is always looming on the horizon. At Gottfried, instead of avoiding the dark, we meet it head… — Yvonne Woon Copy Share Image
This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age!… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that… — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
“A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes. I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now… — Florence Welch Isabella Summers Copy Share Image
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image