We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to… — 1st Baronet Sir Francis Bernard Copy Share Image
the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Time is short. The world is at the brink of eternity. Right now we have the greatest opportunity to rise up and… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting,… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
We're really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It's more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to.… — Doug Collins Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Dylan, this is my friend, Sadie, I told you about.” He looked at me and gave me a slow smile. “Amanda said… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why.… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
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