In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah! — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES — Xavi Copy Share Image
In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom. — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image