She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage.… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You… — John Green Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
