It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image