So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds.… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance… — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image