It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus… — William James Copy Share Image
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans]… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree. "What are you doing?" you… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People ask, "Do you enjoy acting?" But you only have those specific few hours to do a scene, and then you drive… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I love performing, it's my favourite thing to do. I think the music comes across even stronger live. I started performing first,… — NAO Copy Share Image
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
I live a different way today. I have a family, and they are a priority for me. These days, I no longer… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at doing two things at the same time. I've never been good at the walk and bubblegum thing.… — Bjork Copy Share Image
When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit.… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
As many people know, our job market problems began long before the latest recession. We have faced literally decades with no substantive… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the… — Ibn Battuta Copy Share Image
It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found… — Byllye Avery Copy Share Image
People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Opportunities for kindness are flowing past us continuously, during the hours we spend at home, in the office or store or shop… — David Dunn Copy Share Image