Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin,… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years.… — Bryan Robson Copy Share Image
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I… — Arthur P. Warner Copy Share Image
I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia.… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you… — Aaron Douglas Copy Share Image
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image