It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
“Jake couldn't pinpoint how long he had actually waited to have her in his arms like this, but he knew it was… — Janine Infante Bosco Copy Share Image
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would… — James Beard Copy Share Image
If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
“She broke apart first, a beautiful chaos of fire and light in my arms. Dirty and delicate.” — J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Violet, the soft, delicate flower that is stronger than steel. Strong enough to support everyone around her. But are you strong enough… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look not to the past where you were embarrassed, for the most important thing is that those moments are gone, and you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
