“She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“I pick up the thin, delicate silver chain that has a flat bar that horizontally connects the chain together. I see that… — E.K. Blair Copy Share Image
“She was born as music–a single, mellow note suspended in the air. Suspended as if strung from nothing, held into possibilities of… — Debi Cimo Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which… — Mike Binder Copy Share Image
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“A marriage was like a delicate flower. It wasn’t enough to just plant it – you had to do something every day… — Onyih Odunze Copy Share Image
There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The… — Austin Scarlett Copy Share Image
Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate,… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take… — Claire Pettibone Copy Share Image
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image