At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
“On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar… — Rick McCallum Copy Share Image
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way,… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in… — Rachel Vail Copy Share Image
I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in… — Louise Lasser Copy Share Image
Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I think it’s because there's quite a few of us now but because we’re less frequent than American actors - because Hollywood… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook… — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going… — Gianfranco Zola Copy Share Image
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine,… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a… — James Patterson Copy Share Image