Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my… — TobyMac Copy Share Image
The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four… — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
