Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the noise of bees filled the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
