My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. — Lindsey Nelson Copy Share Image
There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.' — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world.… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very… — Desiree Rogers Copy Share Image
I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image