I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman,… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The retirement age of 65 was chosen because most people were dead at that age a hundred years ago! It was a… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. — Baldwin Spencer Copy Share Image
