For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,… — Hans Cloos Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap.… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
It is time to put up a love-swing! Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they swing between the… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image