After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
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The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face.… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country,… — Marti Webb Copy Share Image
As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed,… — June Callwood Copy Share Image
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Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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