I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others. — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened. — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we're in these… — Analeigh Tipton Copy Share Image
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I… — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it… — Stephen Roche Copy Share Image
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
