He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
“Today’s gloom was just such an exquisite affair. He reclined in it as other men might in a hot bath. There was… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He went into the kitchen. It was eight in the evening. He tried to shut the bright spring evening out with the… — Arnaldur Indridason Copy Share Image
“...he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
“Despite Marijana's bracing presence, he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy;… — Swami Paramananda Copy Share Image
Oh, Constellations of the early night That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have seen Your… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen,… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
