Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began tosketch the idea for a new machine on the back… — For The State Of New Jersey Copy Share Image
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled fromview, deep down, invisible, far… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am… — Madonna Copy Share Image
Listening to someone talk isn'tat all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
But our old subtle foe so tempteth me That not one hour I can myself sustain. Thy grace may wing me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Any one who knows what theworth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor does the family even move about together, But every son would have his motor cycle, And daughters ride away on casual… — Thomas Stearns Elio Copy Share Image
I was used to yearning for you. After you returned my love, I felt unsettled and vaguely aggrieved. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It all ended with the circuslikewhump of a monstrous box on the ear with which I knocked down the traitress who rolled… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
According to my observation,a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many parents worry that theywill reinforce a fear by being overly sympathetic. It helps toknow that when children are permitted to avoid… — Cathy Rindner Tempelsman Copy Share Image
I'll be a new bird with the head of an ass, Two pigs' feet, two men's feet,and two of a hen — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything butfruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A good upbringing means notthat you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someoneelse does. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Copy Share Image
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Far out of sight forever standsthe sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitationlike having everybody admit that it is fundamentally… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flowery earth The golden pomp is come. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
