The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Hardy had long since come to terms with having an abusive father, but never in all the years that he had been… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“Still, I think Hardy's the most likely person in this theater to be snapped up by the studios." "But he can't act!"… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And you're not the kind of girl I want." Surely he couldn't mean the fact that I was Mexican. From what I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Hello," he greeted her cheerfully. "You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter. — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
“Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.” — Oliver Hardy Copy Share Image
Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give… — Josephus Daniels Copy Share Image
Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me. — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image