To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the… — Howard Ashman Copy Share Image
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal.… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted… — James Keller Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me,… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
“Almost here with me, you seem to be, you do, every song, each sound, that’s new, is you, almost is enough, if… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Good evening, Miss Fairmont.” She saw Black sprawled out in a wingback chair, jacketless, the white shirt he wore unbuttoned to the… — Charlotte Featherstone Copy Share Image
