New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Alan..." Shelby kept her voice mild and patient as excitement ripped through her. "I've already told you, nothing's going to get started… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be… — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it… — Alan King Copy Share Image
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring… — Walter Lewin Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't… — J. Christopher Burch Copy Share Image
remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement… — Sonny Bono Copy Share Image
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command… — Daniel Hack Tuke Copy Share Image
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing to be nineteen and be in the public eye. It was a crazy thing, it was a big… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel… — Dudley R. Herschbach Copy Share Image
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don't get… — Niall Horan Copy Share Image