Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from… — Oscar Micheaux Copy Share Image
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is easier to talk about doing things than doing them. Many of us want to exercise more, eat more healthy, be… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm… — Benn Northover Copy Share Image
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He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to… — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness… My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
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