The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to-… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people… — Dan Payne Copy Share Image
Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast,… — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
