According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Fine," Strider said tightly. "You can. But you wont. Because you know that if you take the woman out of this home,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave… — Strother Martin Copy Share Image
For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,— You can hear the quick heart of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing,… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised… He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed… — Edward E. Barnard Copy Share Image
