She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
As soon as you go off the racing line you go through all the dust and then have to spend time cleaning… — Jos Verstappen Copy Share Image
Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time,… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder -… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
“When you travel by road in the west you travel with a cohort of dust which streams up from your tyres and… — Kenneth Cook Copy Share Image
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“As the lines on the palm and forehead … turned darker and thicker, as he matured along the highs and lows of… — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
