Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two… — L. Brent Bozell III Copy Share Image
He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding. — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image