For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes. — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you… — Gavin Schmidt Copy Share Image
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
He made a sound of frustation, caught at her hand, brought it to his chest, and pressed it flat over his heart.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
