In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born… — George Carey Copy Share Image
That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years. — Melinda McGraw Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Because I was a young man so, of course, I did get into fights. The last time I actually was in a… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better. — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears? — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years, — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
Great Spirit when we come singing. When we face the sunset the last song, may it be, without shame, singing "It is… — Evelyn Eaton Copy Share Image
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So… — Bjork Copy Share Image
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you. — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image