I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. — William Blake Copy Share Image
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
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