Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had unfurled. If her heart… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“He was shaking his head, biting into his lower lip, fighting the sheer misery of the anticipation, when he realized that another… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Tessa looked quickly to Will, but he only crossed the room as he always did to lean against the fireplace mantel. Cecily… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Little Cinder Girl, they can't understand you. You rise from the as-heap in a blaze and only then do they recognize you… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The halls are light with a dark neon gren flames on sides… walking for what seems to be hours.jonely hated… left alone.… — Ashley Wintrow Copy Share Image
...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Try leaving a trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“She floated on coral and flaxen flames. What she thought was a sea of fire was not seawater at all; it was… — Holly Ringland Copy Share Image
I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad… — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials… — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I Miss your lips on mine your hands wondering and your arms around me. I miss your laugh and the smile that… — Tabatha Muench Copy Share Image
He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love,… — Harold Norse Copy Share Image
I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image