I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers. — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style. — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Come on, baby.” Paris combed his fingers through her hair. “Look past my terrible personality and hideous looks and throw me a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
You know," Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, "you have an attitude problem." "I certainly do. Your attitude… — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer,… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only… — Terry Orlick Copy Share Image
Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
