My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the… — Arthur Cleveland Bent Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us… — Joseph Rodman Drake Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
