“It can't be done, old thing. Sorry, but it's out of the question. I couldn't go through all that again." "Not for… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years of yes's had beaten Mrs. Gilbert. Fifteen further years of that incessant unaffirmative affirmative, accompanied by the perpetual flicking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game… — Richie Ashburn Copy Share Image
“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I've made good money in real estate, and for some reason, this hurts Stephen's feelings. He's not a churchman,… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“His story and the detailed nature of his belief system make me suspect that he is suffering from paranoid ideas. I love… — Paul R. Linde Copy Share Image
“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I’d like to return to prose after a fifteen-year hiatus. An epistolary novella maybe. A man went into the mountains fifteen years… — Urs Allemann Copy Share Image
In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That night she heard the branches tapping against the house and the window frames rattle. She sat alone and thought of the… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Hiro walks straight through the display, and it vanishes. Amusement parks in the Metaverse can be fantastic, offering a wide selection of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“From that age until seventeen I did all the work done with horses, such as breaking up the land, furrowing, ploughing corn… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The phone rang. It was a familiar voice. It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O'Neill had tried to stay in touch with people… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“Over the next 300 years, the Afro-Asian giant swallowed up all the other worlds. It consumed the Mesoamerican World in 1521, when… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“They saw her husband, this giant of a man in God’s Kingdom, this man, that for over fifteen years was their example… — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done… — James Packer Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, it is not clear that cheering for innovation in the bombastic way we see in the blue states… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is...that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want?… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten,… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Real wages have been declining for twenty years. People are working harder, they have to work longer hours, they have less security… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're in love with someone. If you're not, there's something I would like to say to you, and… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“I am walking down the street in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue in the lower sixties, women with shopping bags on all sides. I… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image