I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be… — George Wilson Copy Share Image
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants.… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a… — Ed McCabe Copy Share Image
You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in… — Raghad Hussein Copy Share Image
If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image