Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into… — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
In a longer term relationship, I don't know that the intoxication would add very much - it might even take away. You… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic,… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to… — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of… — John Keats Copy Share Image
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging… — Jack Barakat Copy Share Image
There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't… — Red Barber Copy Share Image
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While… — Laozi Copy Share Image
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
