Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently!… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that… — Gudrun Ensslin Copy Share Image
Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing… — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
