It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful.… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy… — William Law Copy Share Image
An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery.… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes -… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy…A boy is truth with… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image