To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do. — Phil Rizzuto Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That… — Keith Thibodeaux Copy Share Image
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out. — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee,… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of our continuing myths was summed up in Huckleberry Finn: Our escape, what we think of as our escape, is that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop,… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
