As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing.… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel… — William Booth Copy Share Image
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image