The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We… — Terry Hoeppner Copy Share Image
Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to… — James Worthy Copy Share Image
When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body… — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image