their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Flirt with your IDEAS, have a Fling with INNOCENCE, Romance your DREAMS, get Engaged to SIMPLICITY, Marry HAPPINESS, Divorce your EGO, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Ariana has completed me. I felt I'd lived all my high points, till the baby came and life's been on a high… — Mahima Chaudhry Copy Share Image
“The appearance of one's innocence is a funny house of cards; you start by shifting the smallest thing, and before you know… — Suzanne Rindell Copy Share Image
“This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side. — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a… — Sheldon Candis Copy Share Image
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman ” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Mr. Cope...' Povy began. Jem narrowed his eyes. 'The lad has a remarkably innocent face.' 'Innocence is a time of life, not… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Even innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And love is taught hypocrisy from… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human in not having to be just happy or just sad in… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The 'safe spaces' for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Ah no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image