There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Which is why you deal with demons. (Acheron) Who are even more pathetic than humans when you think about it. Personally, I’d… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up. — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Hey! Guy with scary eyes?" Madison called out. "You know what a moose does when someone insults her family?" Ivan raised his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image