All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
And you? Did you find the doorknob?” Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image