Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a… — Samuel Foote Copy Share Image
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Jodiya's shoulders shook in a silent laugh. Slowly, she lowered her pistol. And flung the grenade she held in her other hand.… — Amanda Downum Copy Share Image
“The best example I know, of this astonishingly stupid attitude towards sport, is that of Franz Ferdinand. His, however, was an achievement… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
My words are not only on fire. Iam putting Gunpowder also here and there. which will go on exploding for centuries. — OSHO Copy Share Image
There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling,… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Christian! thou knowest thou carriest gunpowder about thee. Desire them that carry fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that… — James Turrell Copy Share Image