The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate,… — Andreas J. Kostenberger Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about 'true Islam' being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When he moves, he gives the impression of somebody leaning into the wind, or charging a hill, as if the world with… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds,… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact,… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised;… — Julius Hemphill Copy Share Image
Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength… — Guy De la Valdene Copy Share Image